Facebook is named in 37 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 2010 to 2022.
Facebook on the timeline
37 events · 2010–2022 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-22 | January 6th Committee Reveals Social Media Platforms Gave Special Treatment to Conservatives
3 src Twitter · X · Facebook · Meta · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-05 | Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
4 src Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
4 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-03 | Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-14 | FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity
4 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-08 | Facebook shuts down 54 Roger Stone accounts spending $300K
4 src Roger Stone · Facebook | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-01 | Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-01 | Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-17 | Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Facebook Removes 5.4 Billion Fake Accounts in 2019, Exposing Massive Bot Network Infrastructure
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress on Cambridge Analytica and Russian Interference
3 src Mark Zuckerberg · US Congress · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-17 | Cambridge Analytica Scandal Exposed by Whistleblower Christopher Wylie
5 src Christopher Wylie · Cambridge Analytica · Facebook · Aleksandr Kogan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-16 | Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica and SCL After Whistleblower Revelations
4 src Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · SCL Group · Christopher Wylie · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | Facebook Lobbies Irish Government to Weaken GDPR Enforcement, Creates EU Data Protection Haven
4 src Facebook · Irish Data Protection Commission · Enda Kenny (Irish Taoiseach) · Max Schrems · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-01 | Facebook Admits Russians Bought $100,000 in Ads to Influence 2016 Election
4 src Facebook · Internet Research Agency · US Congress · Russian Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-25 | Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Myanmar Military · Rohingya Muslims · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-30 | Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy
2 src Palmer Luckey · Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-28 | ProPublica Exposes Facebook's Algorithmic Redlining: Digital Ad Platform Enables Housing Discrimination at Scale
3 src Facebook · ProPublica · HUD · National Fair Housing Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Facebook Embeds Staff in Trump Campaign Headquarters to Optimize Targeting for Voter Manipulation
4 src Facebook · Brad Parscale · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Cambridge Analytica Deploys Harvested Facebook Data for Trump Campaign Electoral Manipulation
6 src Cambridge Analytica · Trump Campaign · Alexander Nix · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-01 | Guardian Exposes Cambridge Analytica's Unauthorized Facebook Data Use for Ted Cruz Campaign
3 src Harry Davies · The Guardian · Cambridge Analytica · Ted Cruz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-01 | Russian Internet Research Agency begins Facebook ad campaign to influence U.S. politics
3 src Internet Research Agency · Facebook · Yevgeny Prigozhin | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-28 | Facebook Emotional Contagion Experiment Revealed
4 src Adam Kramer · Jamie Guillory · Jeff Hancock · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-15 | FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash
3 src Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations
4 src Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-06 | Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica
3 src Aleksandr Kogan · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · Global Science Research | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-10 | FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate
5 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Jon Leibowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley
3 src Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
3 src Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Mark Zuckerberg
20× shared
Cambridge Analytica
7× shared
Donald Trump
6× shared
Google
5× shared
Federal Trade Commission
4× shared
Aleksandr Kogan
3× shared
Christopher Wylie
3× shared
Frances Haugen
3× shared
Instagram
3× shared
Microsoft
3× shared
Trump Campaign
3× shared
Twitter
3× shared
Alexander Nix
2× shared
Internet Research Agency
2× shared
Myanmar Military
2× shared
National Security Agency
2× shared
Robert Mercer
2× shared
Rohingya Muslims
2× shared
Steve Bannon
2× shared
The Guardian
2× shared
US Congress
2× shared
United Nations
2× shared
WhatsApp
2× shared
Yahoo
2× shared
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