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e. Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [2]
Traffic volume for Facebook services on October 4, 2021 with a drop during the global outage. On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours. [1][2][3] The outage also prevented anyone trying ...
v. t. e. In 2021, an internal document leak from the company then known as Facebook (now Meta Platforms, or Meta) showed it was aware of harmful societal effects from its platforms, yet persisted in prioritizing profit over addressing these harms. The leak, released by whistleblower Frances Haugen, resulted in reporting from The Wall Street ...
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for nearly six hours in 2021, an outage that the company assured users was not due to malicious activity. “We are aware of availability issues ...
Admittedly, my Facebook vacation had been in the works for a while before I closed the tab on my laptop. After slogging through what felt like an onslaught of political memes and angry screeds, I ...
Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12][13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]
Facebook filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012 by filing their S1 document with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [10] The preliminary prospectus announced that the company had 845 million active monthly users and that its website featured 2.7 billion daily likes and comments. [11]
As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. [7] As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States. [8][9] It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.