Facebook

Facebook is an American social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The name Facebook derives from the face book directories often given to American university students.

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Facebook is an American social networking service founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard College roommates that allows people to connect and share information online. It is now owned by Meta Platforms, a large American technology company, and has become one of the world's most widely used social media platforms.

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Website.name: Facebook
Website.logo: 75px|Facebook logo 175px|Facebook wordmark
Website.logo_alt: The Facebook logo is a circular logo with a sans-serif white letter "F" with a blue background.
Website.logo_caption: Logo used since September 2023.
Website.screenshot: Facebook user page.png
Website.screenshot_alt: This is a screenshot of Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook profile. It includes his profile photo and a header photo of llamas.
Website.caption: Mark Zuckerberg's profile (viewed when logged out), 2023
Website.collapsible: no
Website.type: Social networking service
Website.language: MultilingualAfrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (België), English (UK), English (US), English (upside down), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Frisian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Japanese (Kansai), Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (bokmal), Norwegian (nynorsk), Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Shona, Silesian, Simplified Chinese (China), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetun, Thai, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh and Zaza
Website.language_count: 112
Website.founded: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Website.area_served: Worldwide, except blocking countries
Website.CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
Website.registration: Required (to do any activity)
Website.users: 3.07 billion monthly active users ()
Website.owner: Meta Platforms
Website.current_status: Active

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Contents

History
Features
Website
Technical aspects
2012 architecture
Content delivery network (CDN)
Hack programming language
User profile/personal timeline
News Feed
Like button
Instant messaging
Privacy policy
Bug Bounty Program
Reception
Userbase
Demographics
Censorship
Criticisms and controversies
Privacy concerns
Racial bias
Shadow profiles
Cambridge Analytica
DataSpii
Breaches
Phone data and activity
Public apologies
Content disputes and moderation
Misinformation and fake news
Threats and incitement
Terrorism
Hate speech
Violent erotica
''InfoWars''
Political manipulation
Influence Operations and Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
Russian interference
Anti-Rohingya propaganda
Anti-Muslim propaganda and Hindu nationalism in India
Company governance
Customer support
Litigation
Impact
Scope
Economy
Society
Mental and emotional health
Politics
India
Culture
Internet.org
Environment
See also
References
Further reading
External links

The service was initially limited to Harvard students before gradually expanding to other universities in North America. Since 2006, Facebook has permitted registration by individuals aged 13 and older, with the exception of South Korea, Spain, and Quebec, where the minimum age is 14.

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