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General Wikipedia reference on Facebook/Meta, relevant as background for understanding the company's role in AI deployment, content moderation, and AI research; not directly an AI safety resource but useful organizational context.
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Wikipedia's comprehensive reference article on Facebook, covering its history, features, business model, and social impact. Provides background on the platform's scale, data practices, and controversies relevant to AI safety discussions about large-scale social media platforms.
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- •Facebook is one of the world's largest social media platforms with billions of users, making it a significant actor in AI deployment at scale
- •The platform uses extensive AI and algorithmic systems for content recommendation, moderation, and targeted advertising
- •Facebook has been involved in numerous controversies around data privacy, misinformation, and algorithmic harms
- •Meta (Facebook's parent company) is a major player in AI research and development, including large language models and AI safety research
- •The platform's scale and influence make it relevant to discussions of AI governance, content moderation policy, and societal AI impacts
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Social networking service owned by Meta Platforms
This article is about the social media service. For its owner, formerly known as Facebook, Inc. see Meta Platforms . See also Face book .
Facebook Logo used since September 2023. Screenshot
Mark Zuckerberg's profile (viewed when logged out ), 2023 Type of site Social networking service Available in 112 languages [ 1 ] List of languages Multilingual
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (België), English (UK), English (US), English (upside down), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Frisian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Japanese (Kansai), Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (bokmal), Norwegian (nynorsk), Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Shona, Silesian, Simplified Chinese (China), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetun, Thai, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh and Zaza Founded February 4, 2004 ; 22 years ago  ( 2004-02-04 ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts , US Area served Worldwide, except blocking countries Owner Meta Platforms Founders Mark Zuckerberg
Dustin Moskovitz
Chris Hughes
Andrew McCollum
Eduardo Saverin
CEO Mark Zuckerberg URL facebook.com Registration Required (to do any activity) Users 3.07 billion monthly active users (as of 6 March 2026 [update] ) [ 2 ] Launched February 4, 2004 ; 22 years ago  ( 2004-02-04 ) Current status Active Written in C++ , Hack (as HHVM ) and PHP [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
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