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The world's largest social network has more than 2 billion daily users, and is expanding rapidly around the world. Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook undergirds much of the world's communication online, both through its flagship app and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Despite huge financial success, Facebook is also confronted with questions about data privacy, hate speech on the platform, and concerns that frequent social media use can lead to unhappiness. The Verge publishes a nightly newsletter about Facebook and democracy, subscribe here.

Facebook won’t let Russian advertisers create or run ads ‘anywhere in the world’

Russia says it’s blocking Facebook in alarming new censorship push

Facebook shuts down its attempt to remake original Facebook inside Facebook

Biden demands Congress protect kids online in State of the Union address

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen to join Jill Biden at State of the Union address

The White House called Haugen an advocate for transparency in tech and social media

Facebook has stopped recommending Russian state media globally

Facebook blocks RT and Sputnik pages in the EU

Facebook removes Russian misinformation network pushing fake news about the war in Ukraine

Facebook limits access to some Russian state-controlled media in Ukraine

Meta reportedly breaks up the 300-person team that was building a hybrid VR / AR OS

Russia partially blocks Facebook for fact-checking state-owned media

Trump’s Truth Social app can’t beat Twitter, but it doesn’t have to

Meta announces plans to build an AI-powered ‘universal speech translator’

Meta launches Reels in Facebook globally, with more ads and editing features

Facebook whistleblower accuses company of failing to address climate change misinformation

How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users

Super Pumped is getting a second season about Facebook

Focused on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s relationship

Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years

Meta’s Facebook to pay $90 million to settle decade-old privacy lawsuit

New algorithm bill could force Facebook to change how the news feed works

Oversight Board tells Meta to crack down on Facebook address doxxing

Vergecast: Facebook’s decline of daily users and Spotify’s publisher versus platform debate

Snapchat and Facebook agree that the future of social media looks like TikTok

Meta’s market value plunges by $230 billion in one day

Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever last quarter