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Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room and as of June 2016 http://www.facebook.com has amassed 1.71 billion users.

In 2014, Facebook acquired both WhatsApp for $19bn and Oculus VR for $2bn.

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Facebook rolls out pop-up cafes offering free drinks and privacy checkups

Facebook premieres new cinema ad formats

Facebook is taking a targeted approach to subscription TV

It’s too easy to see Facebook and Google as 'the baddies' – others must help save news

Instagram's test of banning likes is good for creators, brands and culture

How Quaker Oats introduced a Facebook Messenger chatbot to improve consumer engagement

Facebook CMO Antonio Lucio: ‘The marketer of the future must be a business person first’

Is Instagram getting the balance right with its page purge - or is it censoring users?

What the ACCC's final report on digital platforms to the Australian government means

Instagram removing likes can close the gap between people's authentic and social selves

Conservatives mount Brexit ad blitz on Facebook as Boris Johnson takes office

Facebook shrugs off challenges to post 28% second quarter growth in ad revenues

Facebook wants to help brands reach sports fans around major events like the 2020 Olympics

How do the future fortunes of Facebook look?

Facebook appoints board-level privacy panel as part of $5bn US FTC settlement

Diageo, Jaywing, New York Times, FleishmanHillard: Meet The Drum Social Buzz Awards judges

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Food on Instagram is increasingly authentic and creative

Facebook invests in spam ad crackdown following Martin Lewis settlement

Facebook counts $5bn cost of Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook updates ad tools to give users more detail on how they are targeted by brands

Australian Government warns Google and Facebook to expect stricter regulations

Facebook's Steve Hatch to chair The Drum Social Buzz Awards 2019

Platforms scramble to win creators away from YouTube – the 'clear front runner' in video

Facebook plans to double hires of women and minority groups

Facebook’s data troubles refuse to go away with a fresh court challenge

UK government to probe whether digital ad market poses 'harm' to people

Facebook’s new currency Libra – how will it impact digital commerce?

Facebook CRO David Fischer takes over as Ad Council board chair

Facebook advertising chief David Fischer gets expanded revenue remit

Facebook CMO Antonio Lucio on the challenge he faces, his diversity playbook and GDPR

Facebook's political ad verification tool goes global

Political outlets form nonpartisan ad alliance to win dollars back from Google and Facebook

Brand safety initiatives take center stage at Cannes

Unilever, Diageo, Facebook, Google and more form global 'digital safety' alliance

P&G’s Marc Pritchard: ‘Give Facebook & Google credit for the work they’re doing to improve'

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