Facebook turns 20: How the social media giant grew to 3 billion users

Facebook was named after the physical student directory distributed at universities at the start of the academic year, commonly known as a “face book”.

Over the past two decades the platform owned by meta has been credited with revolutionising how we interact and share ideas online. But it’s also raised major concerns over privacy, hate speech and misinformation.

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