Meta's 17-year privacy arc: Cambridge Analytica, the $5B FTC fine, the €1.2B Irish DPC fine, Frances Haugen, GDPR enforcement, and the unresolved AI training data question. The most fully documented platform-privacy operating record in technology industry history.
The canonical Everything-PR hub for Facebook and Meta. How the platform reshaped communications, the News Feed and algorithmic distribution, Groups, Marketplace, the Meta family of apps, Cambridge Analytica, Frances Haugen, Meta AI, and the AI Communications era.
Originally published December 2009 on Facebook's privacy-settings rollout. Rebuilt June 2026 as EPR's reference on the seventeen-year evolution of platform privacy — from Facebook's first default-public moment to the AI training-data fights of 2026.
Fifteen years of brand campaigns and crises on Facebook produced more case studies than any other platform. Brand pages, paid acquisition, comment-layer crisis communications, Group strategy, and the lessons that carry into AI Communications. Satellite to the Facebook and Meta hub.