<p>FaceMash, The Facebook, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Meta...is the Threads flop the end of an era?</p><p>In this three part series we go back to where it all started and trace Facebook's early successes and controversies. This episode starts with FaceMash and the series of good decisions that allowed Facebook to surpass Myspace as the most visited social media website in 2008. </p>

FaceMash, The Facebook, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Meta...is the Threads flop the end of an era? In this three part series we go back to where it all started and trace Facebook's early successes and controversies. This episode starts with FaceMash and the series of good decisions that allowed Facebook to surpass Myspace as the most visited social media website in 2008.

The Rise and Fall of Social Media Empires: Meta (Facebook), Part 1

From hype cycles to fake news, it's hard to find what's real on social media. Yet we spend much of our lives getting our news and interacting with one another on networks that know an enormous amount about us, while we know virtually nothing about them. Breaking the feed pulls back the curtain and explores the origins of today's social media landscape and addresses some of the most pressing issues including privacy, abuse, misinformation, and other harms. Our hosts, Taryn Ward and Steven Jones, walk through these issues and move beyond the headlines.

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The Rise and Fall of Social Media Empires: Meta (Facebook), Part 1

The Rise and Fall of Social Media Empires: Meta (Facebook), Part 1