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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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# Facebook

Facebook

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms "Meta Platforms").

Not to be confused with [Face book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book "Face book").

| [![Facebook logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/2023_Facebook_icon.svg/250px-2023_Facebook_icon.svg.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2023_Facebook_icon.svg "Facebook logo")[![Facebook wordmark](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Facebook_logo_%282023%29.svg/500px-Facebook_logo_%282023%29.svg.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_logo_(2023).svg "Facebook wordmark")<br>Logo used since September 2023. |
| Screenshot<br>[![This is a screenshot of Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook profile. It includes his profile photo and a header photo of llamas.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Facebook_user_page.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_user_page.png)<br>Mark Zuckerberg's profile (viewed when [logged out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Login "Login")), 2023 |
| Type of site | [Social networking service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service "Social networking service") |
| Availablein | 112 languages[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-1) |
| List of languages<br>[Multilingual](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism "Multilingualism")<br>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 | February4, 2004;22 years ago(2004-02-04) in [Cambridge, Massachusetts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts "Cambridge, Massachusetts"), US |
| Areaserved | Worldwide, except [blocking countries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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