As Facebook turns 20, a look at how social media has changed modern communication for good and bad

Twenty years ago Sunday, tech whiz Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called The Facebook, a social networking site designed for Harvard University students.

It wasn’t the first social media site, but in a few years it would become the standard, reshape public discourse and spawn new sites that would change communications and society in general.







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From left, Discord CEO Jason Citron, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, X CEO Linda Yaccarino and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are sworn in Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety.




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