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Facebook (company, historical name)

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Institutional dossier

The documented history of Facebook (company, historical name): chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.

Records dated 2018-01-22 to 2021-10-28 · 0 undated

2 claims · 2 sources · 2 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.

Scope, evidence and limits

Description: Historical parent-company name, distinct from the Facebook service. The 2021 branding transition record is not a claim of legal succession between separate companies.

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The dossier is computed from existing records. It is not a continuous history of the institution, and a missing record does not mean that an event or relationship did not happen. The chronology uses the dates of events and reports, not the date the public could first have known of them. Later sources can describe earlier events.

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Institutions linked by a documented relationship. Each keeps its own chronology and evidence. When units combine, their earlier records stay separate.

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Chronology

Records about the institution itself and documented changes to its frameworks, by year. Expand a year to read the claims. People’s other institutional records and related documents have their own sections. Where a date gives only the year or month, the order within it is unknown.

2018Record year · 1 claims
  1. 2018-01-22 · snapshotinstitutions

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported

    Qualification and date notes

    Historical company context; does not equate FAIR with the whole parent company or assert a separately incorporated subsidiary.

    Historical source snapshot; no continuing appointment or capacity is inferred.

2021Record year · 1 claims
  1. 2021-10-28 · announcementinstitutions

    Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Announced

    Activity: announced · name announcement

    Qualification and date notes

    The source explicitly says the corporate structure is not changing. This is a name announcement, not incorporation, merger or legal succession.

    Announcement date, not an independently verified transaction completion date.