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  2. 2021 Facebook outage - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data - AOL

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    Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police ...

  4. Meta admits 'error' in taking down conservative college's ...

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    Facebook shut down Hillsdale College's online courses page the same day the school launched a course critical of Communism and Marxism last week. In a later clarification to Fox News Digital, the ...

  5. Are Facebook and Instagram down? What to know about the ... - AOL

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    Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads − all owned by Meta − crashed Tuesday around 10 a.m., DownDetector reports. Here's what to know. Is Facebook down? Why did Facebook log me out?

  6. Lane v. Facebook, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Keywords. internet privacy. Lane vs. Facebook was a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California regarding internet privacy and social media. [1] In December 2007, Facebook launched Beacon, which resulted in users' private information being posted on Facebook without the users' consent.

  7. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Why Facebook Shutting Down Its Old Facial Recognition System ...

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    Facebook just made a big deal of shutting down its original facial recognition system. But the company’s pivot to the metaverse means collecting more personal information than ever before.View ...

  9. Parse, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Parse, Inc. Parse, Inc. was a company acquired by Meta (then named Facebook) in 2013 and shut down in January 2017. [1][2] They developed a MBaaS platform, Parse. Following the announcement in 2016 of the impending shutdown, the platform was subsequently open sourced. After the hosted service was shut down, the open source version grew into an ...