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  2. 2021 Facebook outage - Wikipedia

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    2021 Facebook outage. 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.

  3. 2021 Facebook leak - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Facebook and Instagram outage: Widespread disruption resolved

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    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 ...

  6. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.

  7. Eduardo Saverin - Wikipedia

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    Eduardo Luiz Saverin ( / ˈsævərɪn / SAV-ər-in; Portuguese: [eduˈaʁdu luˈis ˈsaveɾĩ] ⓘ; born March 19, 1982) [4] is a Brazilian billionaire entrepreneur and angel investor based in Singapore. [5] Saverin is one of the co-founders of Facebook. [6] In 2012, he owned 53 million Facebook shares [7] (approximately 2% of all outstanding ...

  8. Initial public offering of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg resisted buyout offers, suggesting the company was "definitely in no rush." For years, Facebook and Zuckerberg resisted both buyouts and taking the company public. The main reason that the company decided to go public is because it crossed the threshold of 500 shareholders, according to Reuters financial blogger ...

  9. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    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]