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Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his dormitory at Harvard University.
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Facebook moves its headquarters to Palo Alto, California.
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Facebook begins to allow anyone over 13 join. It also introduces News Feed, which lets users see friends' Wall posts in one place.
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Sheryl Sandberg is hired as chief operating officer of Facebook.
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Facebook introduces a profile page called a timeline.
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Stock rises 3% to reach an all-time high. The company's market value is close to $245 billion, making it worth more than Walmart, a $235 billion company.
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Facebook hits a milestone when 1 billion users log into Facebook in a single day.
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Facebook rolls out the "Related Articles" feature that provides links to stories from fact checking sites such as Snopes and PolitiFact.
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A group of Facebook investors file a federal lawsuit against the company for allegedly making "materially false and misleading statements" about its privacy policies. This caused the company's value to plunge nearly $50 billion in a Wall Street sell off triggered by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.