The new social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, connected hundreds of millions of people. By 2008, politicians and interest groups were experimenting with systematic use of social media to spread their message. ProPublica noted that their system enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of “Jew hater”, “How to burn Jews”, or, “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world”. In a period of six months, October 2018 – March 2019, the social media website removed a total of 3.39 billion fake accounts. The number of fake accounts was reported to be more than 2.4 billion real people on the platform. In February 2020, Facebook encountered a major security breach in which its official Twitter account was hacked by a Saudi Arabia-based group called “OurMine”.

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At first Facebook downplayed the significance of the breach, and suggested that Cambridge Analytica no longer had access. Review of documents and interviews with former Facebook employees suggested that Cambridge Analytica still possessed the data. Facebook has often been criticized over issues such as user privacy (as with the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal), political manipulation (as with the 2016 U.S. elections) and mass surveillance. Commentators have accused Facebook of willingly facilitating the spread of such content, as well as exaggerating its number of users to appeal to advertisers. The Cambridge Analytica data scandal offered another example of the perceived attempt to influence elections. Over a million people installed the Facebook application “US Politics on Facebook” in order to take part which measured responses to specific comments made by the debating candidates.

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  • In August 2010, one of North Korea’s official government websites and the country’s official news agency, Uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.

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  • He spoke after President Biden said he was ready to sign legislation that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the video platform or face a ban in the US.

In July 2019, Facebook advanced its measures to counter deceptive political propaganda and other abuse of its services. The company removed more than 1,800 accounts and pages that were being operated from Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Honduras. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it was announced that the internet regulatory committee would block access to Facebook. As a dominant social-web service with massive outreach, Facebook has been used by identified or unidentified political operatives to affect public opinion.

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On May 13, 2015, Facebook in association with major news portals launched “Instant Articles” to provide news on the Facebook news feed without leaving the site. Each registered user on Facebook has a personal profile that shows their posts and content. In June 2009, Facebook introduced a “Usernames” feature, allowing users to choose a unique nickname used in the URL for their personal profile, for easier sharing. For example, they might go to the same sporting club, live in the same suburb, have the same breed of pet or share a hobby.
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  • Ars Technica reported in April 2018 that the Facebook Android app had been harvesting user data, including phone calls and text messages, since 2015.

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  • Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feedback about the “back to back” January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.

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  • In May 2014, Facebook introduced a feature to allow users to ask for information not disclosed by other users on their profiles.
  • Facebook stated that content that receives “false” ratings from its fact-checkers can be demonetized and suffer dramatically reduced distribution.

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  • Ahead of the 2019 general elections in India, Facebook has removed 103 pages, groups and accounts on Facebook and Instagram platforms originating from Pakistan.

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  • Facebook focused on generating revenue through targeted advertising based on user data, a model that drove its rapid financial growth.
  • European antitrust regulator Margrethe Vestager stated that Facebook’s terms of service relating to private data were “unbalanced”.
  • In January 2019, Facebook said it has removed 783 Iran-linked accounts, pages and groups for engaging in what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”.

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In April 2021, The Guardian reported approximately half a billion users’ data had been stolen including birthdates and phone numbers. In September 2024, Meta paid a $101 million fine for storing up to 600 million passwords of Facebook and Instagram users in plain text. These facilities vary according to country, as some nations require the company to make data available (and limit access to services), while the European Union’s GDPR regulation mandates additional privacy protections. Third-party developers can integrate apps into Messenger, letting users enter an app while inside Messenger and optionally share details from the app into a chat. Businesses like respond.io, Twilio, and Manychat also used the APIs to develop chatbots and automation platforms for commercial use. Bonisa On January 11, 2018, Facebook announced that it would change News Feed to prioritize friends/family content and de-emphasize content from media companies.

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Positive effects include signs of “virtual empathy” with online friends and helping introverted persons learn social skills. On March 6, 2018, BlackBerry sued Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp subdivision for ripping off key features of its messaging app. Facebook pledged to remove InfoWars content making the claim, although InfoWars videos pushing the false claims were left up, even though Facebook had been contacted about the videos. Facebook also allowed InfoWars videos that shared the Pizzagate conspiracy theory to survive, despite specific assertions that it would purge Pizzagate content. As of 2018, Facebook had over 40 fact-checking partners across the world, including The Weekly Standard.
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An econometric analysis found that Facebook’s app development platform added more than 182,000 jobs in the U.S. economy in 2011. They claimed that Facebook protected prominent figures from scrutiny instead of removing content that violates its rules and that the special treatment was financially driven. The suits also assert that in acquiring these products, they weakened their privacy measures for their users. Ankhi Das, Facebook’s policy director for India and South and Central Asia, apologized publicly in August 2020 for sharing a Facebook post which called Muslims in India a “degenerate community”. She is reported to have prevented action by Facebook against anti-Muslim content and supported the BJP in internal Facebook messages.

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