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Social network Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room. In 2014, it acquired both WhatsApp for $19bn and Oculus VR for $2bn. Now it is facing the repercussions of its mass scale and faces regulatory friction around the world.

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Despite ad boycott, monopoly probe and a pandemic, Facebook revenue grows 11%

31 July 2020

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Planning for a Christmas like no other

29 July 2020

Future of Media: Amid cuts ravenous industries eye Facebook spend

16 July 2020

Imagine there's no Facebook, where's the easy media buy?

16 July 2020

How LifeAid sales stayed healthy despite CrossFit controversy, gym closures

14 July 2020

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Marketing has the power to change the world

13 July 2020

Facebook should feel ad boycott pain in wallet, not influencers

09 July 2020

Why this Facebook advertising boycott is different

08 July 2020

How DTC furniture rental brand Feather has stayed afloat amid coronavirus

08 July 2020

Conversation, not boycotts, is the way to fix social media says Unilever marketing boss

07 July 2020

What's next for social ad spend as one third of brands plot hate-speech boycott?

01 July 2020

Starbucks and Levi's join Facebook ad boycott – but what will be the impact?

29 June 2020

Facebook announces new hate speech policies after Unilever joins advertiser boycott

26 June 2020

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There’s never been a better time to put social good at the core of business says Facebook

04 June 2020

Australian government says the media is responsible for reader's defamatory comments

02 June 2020

Brands can turn the tide during coronavirus by building new consumer journeys

02 June 2020

Facebook Shops: the timing couldn’t be better but it's not a play for Amazon

22 May 2020

Facebook buying Giphy means more to tech rivals than it does advertisers

19 May 2020

Facebook's alliance with Jio will help it unlock India

13 May 2020

Facebook rolls out whitelists and better live stream controls in brand safety tweak

12 May 2020

Facebook’s Dan Neary on reinventing togetherness

12 May 2020

Facebook sees a flattening of ad revenue as coronavirus impacts business

30 April 2020

Facebook spends on ads to celebrate the role of its communities in lockdown

29 April 2020

Facebook joins Google in providing financial support for publishers

29 April 2020

Can Facebook Gaming take Twitch’s advertising crown?

24 April 2020

Can Australia save local journalism by forcing Google and Facebook to share out ad revenue?

22 April 2020

Digital Transformation Festival

The beat goes on for Defected's virtual festival post-lockdown, but sponsors can wait

17 April 2020

Facebook launches chatbot and news hub in India to fight against misinformation on coronavirus

30 March 2020

Facebook braces for pandemic ad spend dip

25 March 2020

UK government’s coronavirus media strategy questioned as it forgoes official Facebook channels

24 March 2020

Facebook finds its Covid-19 purpose by issuing $100m in small biz grants and ad credits

17 March 2020

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How community can play a central role in your business strategy

16 March 2020

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How can brand marketers master closed ecosystems?

11 March 2020

Facebook India kicks off consumer marketing push with ‘more together’ campaign

03 March 2020

Facebook expresses censorship concerns after blocking Singapore users' access to fake news...

19 February 2020

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How community can play a central role in your business strategy

18 February 2020

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