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Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roommates in 2004, initially restricted to Harvard students before gradually expanding to other universities and eventually opening to the general public in 2006, growing into the largest social network in the world. The platform's News Feed feature, introduced in 2006, fundamentally changed how social media worked by algorithmically surfacing content from a user's entire network in one continuous scroll, a format that became the default template essentially every subsequent major social platform adopted in some form. Facebook's 2021 corporate rebrand to Meta reflected the company's strategic pivot toward investing heavily in virtual and augmented reality technology, even as the original Facebook app and its billions of monthly users remained the company's core product and revenue driver. Facebook's combination of its pioneering algorithmic News Feed format and its unmatched scale as the first social network to reach billions of users has made it the most historically significant social media platform ever built.
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TikTok launched internationally in 2017 by Chinese company ByteDance, following its acquisition and merger with the lip-sync app Musical.ly, built around short-form vertical video and a uniquely powerful recommendation algorithm that could surface engaging content to users with minimal reliance on who they followed. The platform's "For You" algorithmic feed, capable of quickly identifying and promoting engaging content from any creator regardless of follower count, gave ordinary users a viral path to massive audiences that older, follower-graph-dependent platforms rarely offered, reshaping how internet virality worked. TikTok became the subject of a prolonged U.S. national security and data-privacy controversy over its Chinese ownership, ultimately resulting in significant government scrutiny, proposed and partial bans, and forced ownership restructuring debates that made it one of the most politically contested social platforms in American history. TikTok's combination of its uniquely powerful content-recommendation algorithm and its unprecedented status as a foreign-owned platform facing sustained U.S. national security scrutiny has made it one of the most consequential social media platforms of its era.
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