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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 apologises after some private messages are made public

Advertisers are split over the effectiveness of YouTube and Facebook’s brand safety fixes

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Facebook and Google fined by Indian supreme court for refusing to remove sexual content

New report: how marketers can use GDPR to their advantage

Facebook appoints Joyee Biswas as APAC sports partnership head

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Facebook, fake ads and the death of democracy

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NMPi acquires paid social specialist Media Pact

Cambridge Analytica files for insolvency amid growing public concern over online privacy

Facebook will let users opt out of sharing the browsing history data it uses to sell ads

MPs tell Mark Zuckerberg to volunteer Cambridge Analytica evidence or face formal summons

WhatsApp chief Jan Koum exits Facebook board amid reports of discontent over privacy policies

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Facebook denies conducting personality tests to better target ads

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