Facebook: 160 Scandals, Controversies, & Embarrassments
By Tom Elliott
Contributors: 5
Items: 160
| Summary | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Koobface" virus turns up on Facebook, impacting millions | 12/05/2008 | Reuters |
| Facebook 'linked to rise in syphilis' | 03/24/2010 | The London Telegraph |
| Facebook Glitch Exposed Private Chats | 05/05/2010 | The Wall Street Journal |
| 3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days | 08/24/2010 | CNN |
| Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem' | 09/09/2010 | The Daily Mail |
| Facebook down for second day in a row | 09/23/2010 | CNN |
| Facebook apps found to transmit personal data | 10/18/2010 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Facebook 'accidentally outing gay users' to outside firms through targeted ads | 10/22/2010 | The Daily Mail |
| Facebook raises $500 million from Goldman, Russian investor | 01/02/2011 | The New York Times |
| Facebook Apps Allowing Access to Numbers, Addresses | 01/17/2011 | PC Mag |
| Facebook blocks Roger Ebert's blog for 'abusive content' | 01/21/2011 | AdWeek |
| Facebook Bans Kate Middleton | 01/24/2011 | The Daily Mail |
| Dating Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles Without Permission | 02/03/2011 | Wired |
| Mark Zuckerberg: I Fear My Facebook Stalker | 02/08/2011 | TMZ |
| Outrage as Facebook changes its privacy rules AGAIN to share users' phone numbers and home addresses with third party companies | 03/02/2011 | The Daily Mail |
| Facebook a top cause of relationship trouble, say US lawyers | 03/08/2011 | The Guardian |
| Dearborn Republican sues Facebook for shutting down account during election, foiling his 'attempt to overthrow the Dingell Dynasty' | 03/09/2011 | Michigan Live |
| Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | 03/17/2011 | The Guardian |
| Doctors Warn About ‘Facebook Depression’ In Teens | 03/28/2011 | Associated Press |
| NYC Family Sues Facebook Over Image Of Daughter’s Corpse | 03/28/2011 | CBS New York |
| Facebook sued for $1billion over 'Intifada' page calling for violence against Jews | 04/03/2011 | The Daily Mail |
| Facebook rolls out red carpet for Obama re-election; Zuckerberg on board | 04/05/2011 | The Mercury News |
| Facebook Says It Might Block Content in Some Countries 'Too Much, Maybe, Free Speech' | 04/20/2011 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Facebook paid PR firm to smear Google | 05/12/2011 | The Guardian |
| Facebook aborts page of unborn baby | 06/03/2011 | NBC News |
| Facebook in new privacy row over facial recognition feature | 06/08/2011 | The Guardian |
| Thieves use Facebook and Twitter to co-ordinate 'flashrob' raid of Victoria's Secret store | 07/26/2011 | The Daily Mail |
| Proliferation of Holocaust Denial Facebook Pages Causes Alarm | 08/18/2011 | The Daily Beast |
| Intel agencies increasingly coopting Facebook for surveillance | 09/30/2011 | Reuters |
| Facebook Building 'Shadow Profiles' of Non-Members, Experts Allege | 10/21/2011 | Fox News |
| Facebook enables Google to index users' comments as search results | 11/03/2011 | CBS News |
| Facebook investigates wave of explicit spam | 11/15/2011 | The London Telegraph |
| Mark Zuckerberg’s private pictures leaked after security breached on Facebook | 12/06/2011 | Page Six |
| Facebook locks down 45,000 accounts to stop 'worm' spreading | 01/06/2012 | The London Telegraph |
| Lawmakers accuse Facebook of ducking questions on its privacy practices | 01/09/2012 | The Hill |
| Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments | 01/12/2012 | All Things Digital |
| No Women on Facebook Board Shows White Male Influence | 02/02/2012 | Bloomberg |
| How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details | 03/10/2012 | The London Telegraph |
| Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents | 03/12/2012 | Reuters |
| Kids raped, sodomized on Facebook pages | 05/06/2012 | WND |
| GM to stop advertising on Facebook | 05/15/2012 | CNN |
| One in 3 Divorce Filings Contain the Word Facebook | 05/21/2012 | Smart Money |
| Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life | 08/03/2012 | The Washington Post |
| Facebook deactivated a page for 'Chic-fil-A Appreciation Day' | 08/13/2012 | National Review |
| Prince Harry shuts down his Facebook account | 08/26/2012 | The Daily Mail |
| ‘Kill Mitt Romney’ Facebook Page Was Online for 17 Days | 08/27/2012 | The Washington Free Beacon |
| Facebook flooded with complaints after messages 'bug' | 09/24/2012 | The London Telegraph |
| Jihadists posted threats on Facebook before attacking Benghazi | 10/02/2012 | The Daily Beast |
| Facebook Fought SEC to Keep Mobile Risks Hidden Before IPO | 10/10/2012 | Bloomberg |
| Facebook accused of taking UK for a ride over taxes | 10/10/2012 | The Guardian |
| Facebook deleted Navy SEALs' posts criticizing Obama on Benghazi | 10/30/2012 | Breitbart |
| Facebook accused of 'dodging tax' by using loophole to channel cash through Cayman Islands haven | 12/23/2012 | The Daily Mail |
| Study: Facebook Could Cause Obesity | 12/23/2012 | CBS Atlanta |
| Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge | 12/27/2012 | Natural News |
| Facebook Says It Was Hacked, but No User Data Compromised | 02/15/2013 | CNBC |
| Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers | 02/27/2013 | CNN Money |
| Colin Powell Facebook Page Was Hacked By Same Perp Who Broke Into Bush Family E-Mail Accounts | 03/11/2013 | The Smoking Gun |
| Study: Anxiety and alcohol use linked to Facebook | 04/12/2013 | CNET |
| Facebook and State Attorneys General Team Up to Educate Teens and Parents about Privacy | 04/14/2013 | ABC News |
| Al Qaeda's Terror Plans Posted on Facebook | 04/23/2013 | WND |
| Facebook Shuts Down Controversial Gun Shop Contest | 04/24/2013 | KDKA |
| Man arrested for selling newborn grandson on Facebook | 04/25/2013 | The London Times |
| Can Facebook lead to psychosis? One study says so | 05/04/2013 | CNET |
| What Search Warrant? Your Facebook Messages And Private Emails Are Not Safe From FBI Surveillance, Says ACLU | 05/13/2013 | International Business Times |
| Facebook's mobile phone to be discontinued after just one month | 05/13/2013 | BGR |
| 10% of Facebook's users are not human - including Mark Zuckerberg's dog Beast who has 1.5 MILLION followers | 05/17/2013 | The Daily Mail |
| Facebook censors pictures of children rallying against GMOs during global March Against Monsanto | 05/26/2013 | Natural News |
| Facebook mogul Sean Parker ordered to pay $2.5M after wedding in coastal zone | 06/03/2013 | Associated Press |
| Facebook and Twitter are magnets for narcissists | 06/12/2013 | CBC News |
| Snowden: Google and Facebook 'misleading' their users | 06/17/2013 | The Washington Examiner |
| Facebook glitch exposes info of 6M users | 06/21/2013 | USA Today |
| Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug | 06/23/2013 | ZDNet |
| Facebook blocked a Fox News reporter after he boasted of being politically incorrect | 06/29/2013 | The Washington Post |
| XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on Facebook | 07/31/2013 | The Guardian |
| Facebook was caught suppressing conservative stories in its 'Trending' section | 05/09/2016 | Gizmodo |
| FB-owned Instagram suspended the account of a conservative comedy group, 'Toughen Up America' | 06/20/2016 | Breitbart |
| Facebook fired Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, reportedly over his pro-Trump views | 03/30/2017 | Tech Crunch |
| A study found that the more you use Facebook, the worse you feel | 04/10/2017 | Harvard Business Review |
| Facebook blocked two dozen Catholic pages without explanation | 07/18/2017 | Catholic News Agency |
| Facebook shut down the page of a user who mocked Mark Zuckerberg | 08/13/2017 | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Facebook removed the event page for white nationalist 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville one day before it took place | 08/14/2017 | Business Insider |
| Facebook shut down an anonymous group used by its Trump-supporting employees | 08/16/2017 | Business Insider |
| An analyst discovered Facebook inflating its ad reach by millions | 09/06/2017 | CNBC |
| Facebook enabled advertisers to reach ‘Jew haters’ | 09/14/2017 | ProPublica |
| Facebook banned paid ads from a pro-life film produced by MLK's niece | 01/18/2018 | The Christian Post |
| UN: Facebook had a 'role' in Rohingya genocide | 03/13/2018 | Al Jazeera |
| Facebook’s ‘favors’ for Obama campaign may have violated federal law | 03/28/2018 | The Daily Signal |
| Facebook banned a German historian for saying "Islam is not a part of German history" | 04/09/2018 | PJMedia |
| Facebook assisted the Vietnamese government crack down on dissent | 04/10/2018 | BuzzFeed |
| Facebook blocked conservative black personalities "Diamond and Silk" | 04/10/2018 | The Washington Post |
| Facebook removed Voice of Europe content, claimed it was an 'accident' | 04/11/2018 | Voice of Europe |
| Facebook rejected a campaign announcement from a Republican Mich. candidate | 04/11/2018 | Fox News |
| Facebook stole biometric data from millions of Americans | 04/16/2018 | Bloomberg |
| Facebook fired multiple employees for snooping, stalking users | 05/02/2018 | Vice |
| Facebook accused of introducing extremists to one another through 'suggested friends' feature | 05/05/2018 | The Telegraph |
| Facebook survey asked if 'adult man' should be allowed to request 'sexual pictures' from 14-year-old | 05/05/2018 | CNBC |
| Facebook banned U.S. ads urging Ireland to keep its abortion ban | 05/09/2018 | National Review Online |
| Facebook shared users' data with Chinese firms known to share data with its government | 06/06/2018 | Axios |
| Facebook gave some companies special access to additional data about users’ friends | 06/08/2018 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Facebook Flagged the Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech | 07/05/2018 | The Federalist |
| FB-owned Instagram removed conservative journalist Tommy Robinson's account (they later said it was "in error") | 08/07/2018 | Breitbart |
| FB-owned Instagram suspended conservative commentator Lauren Southern's account (they later said it was a "mistake") | 08/15/2018 | Breitbart |
| Facebook is secretly scoring its users on a 'trust' scale | 08/21/2018 | Variety |
| Facebook Censors Articles from Conservative Outlets About Manafort, Cohen | 08/23/2018 | PJMedia |
| FB-owned Instagram permanently suspends veteran-owned business for criticizing NFL kneelers | 08/27/2018 | Breitbart |
| How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel the Philippine Drug War | 09/04/2018 | BuzzFeed News |
| Facebook accessed its users' financial data via Messenger's interfacing with financial institutions | 09/18/2018 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Facebook's new home gadget has a camera that follows you around | 09/21/2018 | Fast Company |
| Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information | 09/26/2018 | Gizmodo |
| Facebook had a company wide meeting to chastise an exec who went to the Brett Kavanaugh hearing (who is his longtime friend) | 10/05/2018 | Axios |
| Facebook Cleans House – Purges Several Top Conservative Pages Four Weeks Before Election | 10/12/2018 | Gateway Pundit |
| Facebook lured advertisers by inflating ad-watch times up to 900 percent: lawsuit | 10/17/2018 | The Mercury News |
| Facebook blocked users who reported on CNN contacting Yale alumni, looking for dirt on Brett Kavanaugh | 10/26/2018 | Halsey News |
| Facebook forced out an exec after he donated to an anti-Hillary Clinton group | 11/11/2018 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Instagram Censors Pro-Israel Voice Who Criticized Linda Sarsour | 11/14/2018 | NewsBusters |
| Fending off accusations it allowed fake news to fester, Facebook hired a firm to create fake news attacking its critics | 11/15/2018 | The New York Times |
| For the first time, researchers say Facebook can cause depression | 11/18/2018 | Market Watch |
| Facebook allowed South Sudan family to auction off 16-year-old girl as child bride: report | 11/20/2018 | The Hill |
| Facebook bans users who talk about their sex lives in crackdown on anything that ‘encourages sexual encounters’ | 12/09/2018 | The Sun |
| Author Says Facebook Is Making Us Miserable | 12/14/2018 | CBS News |
| Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Son Suspended From Facebook for Criticizing Palestinians | 12/18/2018 | NewsBusters |
| Facebook employs a team of workers to create rules for what everyone in the world on their platform is allowed to say | 12/27/2018 | The New York Times |
| Facebook's data settings are mostly useless; only deleting your account can stop their tracking | 01/02/2019 | Axios |
| Facebook's Employee Bonuses Now Hinge on 'Social' Progress | 02/05/2019 | Fortune |
| Facebook moderators report abusing drugs to cope with awful work conditions | 02/25/2019 | The Verge |
| Facebook bans Tommy Robinson for criticizing Islamists | 02/26/2019 | The Guardian |
| Facebook staff had access to hundreds of millions of people's passwords | 03/21/2019 | CNN |
| Facebook Pays The Daily Telegraph To Write Articles Praising … Facebook | 04/04/2019 | The Daily Caller |
| Facebook accidentally put hidden messages like 'Big Brother is Watching' and 'The Masons Were Here' in 'tens of thousands' of VR controllers | 04/12/2019 | Business Insider |
| Facebook Includes Candace Owens On ‘Hate Agents‘ List | 05/17/2019 | Breitbart |
| Mark Zuckerberg bragged about banning pro-life ads before Ireland's abortion vote | 07/09/2019 | PJ Media |
| PJ Media Report on Facebook Ban Is 'Hate Speech,' According to Facebook | 07/23/2019 | PJ Media |
| Facebook suspends Netanyahu’s page over 'hate speech' | 09/12/2019 | LaCorte News |
| Instagram takes down photo of women shooting at gun range | 09/22/2019 | LaCorte News |
| How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers | 10/16/2019 | BuzzFeed |
| Facebook, YouTube ban mention of alleged Trump-Ukraine whistleblower’s name | 11/10/2019 | LaCorte News |
| Facebook deletes conservative outlet’s Pages, 3.4M followers, including staff personal accounts | 11/13/2019 | Reclaim the Net |
| Facebook labels factual claim about Obama, Hillary as “Partly False” | 11/21/2019 | LaCorte News |
| Facebook Censors Jordan Peterson Video Link Sent in Private Message | 01/29/2020 | Summit News |
| Facebook agreed to censor posts criticising Vietnamese government after the country slowed down its traffic | 04/23/2020 | The Daily Mail |
| Facebook bans links to fundraiser for Kyle Rittenhouse but allows legal defense funds for others — including convicted murderers, accused murderers, and rioters | 09/01/2020 | The Blaze |
| Facebook Suppresses Tucker Carlson’s Page For ‘Repeated Sharing Of False News’ | 09/25/2020 | LaCorte News |
| Facebook is employing Chinese nationals to censor your speech | 10/21/2020 | The Post Millennial |
| Facebook Throttles Grabien’s Traffic After Report on Social Network’s Election Interference | 10/22/2020 | Grabien News |
| Facebook Says No More Ads for Movement to Recall Gavin Newsom | 01/28/2021 | RedState |
| Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook’s Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story | 02/07/2021 | Forbes |
| Facebook Tries Banning Australia | 02/18/2021 | MSN |
| Facebook censors documentary about government's role in the housing bubble | 03/18/2021 | Tom Woods |
| Facebook Permanently Suspends Virginia State Senator’s Page | 03/23/2021 | LaCorte News |
| Facebook Data From More Than 500 Million Users Found Online | 04/04/2021 | The Epoch Times |
| NBC: Facebook Postings Promote Human Trafficking Over The US-Mexico Border | 04/05/2021 | NBC News |
| Facebook Staff Fret Over China’s Ads Portraying Happy Muslims in Xinjiang | 04/05/2021 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Facebook Throttles Federalist Article Arguing Chauvin Verdict Was Tainted By Politics After Juror Confirms That’s True | 04/26/2021 | The Federalist |
| After censoring articles reporting on Wuhan lab Covid link, Facebook reverses | 05/26/2021 | Politico |
| Facebook roasted for blocking hashtag ‘revolution’ on Independence Day weekend | 07/04/2021 | The Washington Times |
| Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | 09/13/2021 | The Wall Street Journal |
| "Doesn't comply": Facebook rejects ad for Ondrasik's "Blood on My Hands" | 09/14/2021 | HotAir |
| Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show | 09/28/2021 | The Wall Street Journal |
| Apple threatened to ban Facebook app over marketplace for selling maids in the Middle East | 10/25/2021 | Associated Press |
| Facebook shares stay positive despite release of new whistleblower documents | 10/25/2021 | CNBC |
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