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Facebook

Summary

Facebook (now Meta Platforms) is the world's largest social network, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. It became central to how billions of people consume news and information, and has been at the center of numerous controversies about censorship, misinformation, and political influence.

Core Contribution

Created the dominant social networking platform; reshaped global communication, news consumption, and political organizing.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • social media
  • tech
  • information
  • censorship

Historical Influences

Myspace Friendster Web 2.0

Intellectual Lineage

Social media Harvard campus cultureearly internet

Contemporaries & Peers

Twitter/XInstagram TikTok

Minds Influenced

Social media industry online news consumptionpolitical organizing

Intellectual Posterity

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