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Facebook was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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February 21, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
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December 10, 2006	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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May 30, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
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July 12, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept
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Predictions of the end of Facebook was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 March 2020 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Facebook. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Facebook users was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 16 June 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Facebook. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

10 year challenge was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 24 January 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Facebook. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

This article has been viewed enough times in a single year to make it into the Top 50 Report annual list. This happened in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 111 times. The weeks in which this happened:

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Section size for Facebook (56 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	11,493	11,493	317	317
History	10,919	10,919	527	527
Features	2,551	2,551	184	184
Website	285	59,521	19	2,651
Technical aspects	2,824	9,076	148	529
2012 architecture	3,200	3,200	321	321
Content delivery network (CDN)	2,318	2,318	29	29
Hack programming language	734	734	31	31
User profile/personal timeline	7,600	7,600	209	209
News Feed	15,847	15,847	647	647
Like button	5,217	5,217	115	115
Instant messaging	14,743	14,743	422	422
Privacy policy	5,549	5,549	644	644
Bug Bounty Program	1,204	1,204	66	66
Reception	17	11,705	0	517
Userbase	7,551	7,551	345	345
Demographics	992	992	70	70
Censorship	3,145	3,145	102	102
Criticisms and controversies	18,771	142,837	410	6,589
Privacy concerns	7,790	43,771	471	2,431
Racial bias	719	719	63	63
Shadow profiles	2,205	2,205	196	196
Cambridge Analytica	11,490	11,490	541	541
DataSpii	4,001	4,001	316	316
Breaches	4,314	4,314	277	277
Phone data and activity	9,745	9,745	372	372
Public apologies	3,507	3,507	195	195
Content disputes and moderation	989	22,440	42	945
Misinformation and fake news	13,382	13,382	462	462
Threats and incitement	694	694	68	68
Terrorism	466	466	54	54
Hate speech	2,998	2,998	114	114
Violent erotica	617	617	37	37
InfoWars	3,294	3,294	168	168
Political manipulation	2,113	45,042	126	2,141
Influence Operations and Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior	17,788	17,788	1,016	1,016
Russian interference	14,972	14,972	517	517
Anti-Rohingya propaganda	1,189	1,189	37	37
Anti-Muslim propaganda and Hindu nationalism in India	8,980	8,980	445	445
Company governance	3,571	3,571	192	192
Customer support	747	747	33	33
Litigation	8,495	8,495	437	437
Impact	144	32,134	6	1,701
Scope	1,110	1,110	74	74
Economy	3,012	3,012	196	196
Society	1,343	1,343	66	66
Mental and emotional health	5,430	5,430	169	169
Politics	16,076	17,410	822	919
India	1,334	1,334	97	97
Culture	1,372	1,372	102	102
Internet.org	1,515	1,515	101	101
Environment	798	798	68	68
See also	596	596	0	0
References	35	35	0	0
Further reading	380	380	0	0
External links	1,781	1,781	0	0
Total	273,952	273,952	12,486	12,486

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