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    Facebook Names Dataset

    • academictorrents.com
    bittorrent
    Updated Nov 11, 2015
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    Ron Bowes (Skull Security) (2015). Facebook Names Dataset [Dataset]. https://academictorrents.com/details/e54c73099d291605e7579b90838c2cd86a8e9575
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    bittorrent(2991052604)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Nov 11, 2015
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Ron Bowes (Skull Security)
    License

    https://academictorrents.com/nolicensespecifiedhttps://academictorrents.com/nolicensespecified

    Description

    171 million names (100 million unique) This torrent contains: The URL of every searchable Facebook user s profile The name of every searchable Facebook user, both unique and by count (perfect for post-processing, datamining, etc) Processed lists, including first names with count, last names with count, potential usernames with count, etc The programs I used to generate everything So, there you have it: lots of awesome data from Facebook. Now, I just have to find one more problem with Facebook so I can write "Revenge of the Facebook Snatchers" and complete the trilogy. Any suggestions? >:-) Limitations So far, I have only indexed the searchable users, not their friends. Getting their friends will be significantly more data to process, and I don t have those capabilities right now. I d like to tackle that in the future, though, so if anybody has any bandwidth they d like to donate, all I need is an ssh account and Nmap installed. An additional limitation is that these are on

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    Data from: Facebook Users

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Facebook Users [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Apr 1, 2025
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Facebook is fast approaching 3 billion monthly active users. That’s about 36% of the world’s entire population that log in and use Facebook at least once a month.

  3. Facebook Datasets

    • brightdata.com
    .json, .csv, .xlsx
    Updated Jul 30, 2025
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    Bright Data (2025). Facebook Datasets [Dataset]. https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook
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    .json, .csv, .xlsxAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jul 30, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Bright Datahttps://brightdata.com/
    License

    https://brightdata.com/licensehttps://brightdata.com/license

    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Access our extensive Facebook datasets that provide detailed information on public posts, pages, and user engagement. Gain insights into post performance, audience interactions, page details, and content trends with our ethically sourced data. Free samples are available for evaluation. Over 940M records available Price starts at $250/100K records Data formats are available in JSON, NDJSON, CSV, XLSX and Parquet. 100% ethical and compliant data collection Included datapoints:

    Post ID Post Content & URL Date Posted Hashtags Number of Comments Number of Shares Likes & Reaction Counts (by type) Video View Count Page Name & Category Page Followers & Likes Page Verification Status Page Website & Contact Info Is Sponsored Post Attachments (Images/Videos) External Link Data And much more

  4. Cheltenham's Facebook Groups

    • kaggle.com
    zip
    Updated Apr 2, 2018
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    Mike Chirico (2018). Cheltenham's Facebook Groups [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mchirico/cheltenham-s-facebook-group
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    zip(0 bytes)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Apr 2, 2018
    Authors
    Mike Chirico
    License

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.htmlhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

    Description

    Facebook is becoming an essential tool for more than just family and friends. Discover how Cheltenham Township (USA), a diverse community just outside of Philadelphia, deals with major issues such as the Bill Cosby trial, everyday traffic issues, sewer I/I problems and lost cats and dogs. And yes, theft.

    Communities work when they're connected and exchanging information. What and who are the essential forces making a positive impact, and when and how do conversational threads get directed or misdirected?

    Use Any Facebook Public Group

    You can leverage the examples here for any public Facebook group. For an example of the source code used to collect this data, and a quick start docker image, take a look at the following project: facebook-group-scrape.

    Data Sources

    There are 4 csv files in the dataset, with data from the following 5 public Facebook groups:

    post.csv

    These are the main posts you will see on the page. It might help to take a quick look at the page. Commas in the msg field have been replaced with {COMMA}, and apostrophes have been replaced with {APOST}.

    • gid Group id (5 different Facebook groups)
    • pid Main Post id
    • id Id of the user posting
    • name User's name
    • timeStamp
    • shares
    • url
    • msg Text of the message posted.
    • likes Number of likes

    comment.csv

    These are comments to the main post. Note, Facebook postings have comments, and comments on comments.

    • gid Group id
    • pid Matches Main Post identifier in post.csv
    • cid Comment Id.
    • timeStamp
    • id Id of user commenting
    • name Name of user commenting
    • rid Id of user responding to first comment
    • msg Message

    like.csv

    These are likes and responses. The two keys in this file (pid,cid) will join to post and comment respectively.

    • gid Group id
    • pid Matches Main Post identifier in post.csv
    • cid Matches Comments id.
    • response Response such as LIKE, ANGRY etc.
    • id The id of user responding
    • name Name of the user responding

    member.csv

    These are all the members in the group. Some members never, or rarely, post or comment. You may find multiple entries in this table for the same person. The name of the individual never changes, but they change their profile picture. Each profile picture change is captured in this table. Facebook gives users a new id in this table when they change their profile picture.

    • gid Group id
    • id Id of the member
    • name Name of the member
    • url URL of the member
  5. Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028

    • statista.com
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    Updated Dec 12, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Facebook users in the United States 2019-2028 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-facebook-users/
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 12, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    The number of Facebook users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 12.6 million users (+5.04 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the Facebook user base is estimated to reach 262.8 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. Notably, the number of Facebook users of was continuously increasing over the past years.User figures, shown here regarding the platform facebook, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

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    Facebook Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025)

    • businessofapps.com
    Updated Aug 8, 2017
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    Business of Apps (2017). Facebook Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025) [Dataset]. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/
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    Dataset updated
    Aug 8, 2017
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Business of Apps
    License

    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Facebook probably needs no introduction; nonetheless, here is a quick history of the company. The world’s biggest and most-famous social network was launched by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a...

  7. Facebook access penetration 2022, by device

    • statista.com
    Updated May 8, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Facebook access penetration 2022, by device [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/377808/distribution-of-facebook-users-by-device/
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    Dataset updated
    May 8, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Jan 2022
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Facebook is the leading social network worldwide, and its accessibility through multiple mobile apps as well as its mobile website. In January 2021, over 98 percent of active user accounts worldwide accessed the social network via any kind of mobile phone.

    Facebook in mobile-first markets India is thecountry with the largest Facebook audience by far, with 340 million users on the platform, followed the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil all of which have more than 100 million Facebook users each. With the exception of the United States, all of these are digital markets with mobile-first audiences. In many emerging markets, mobile is often the first online experience, providing online users with their first internet experience through inexpensive smartphones and mobile data contracts. In India and Indonesia, mobile by far surpasses desktop in terms of audiences and time spent.

    Mobile Facebook access Due to the social network’s wide reach on mobile, it is unsurprising that Facebook consistently ranks as one of the most-downloaded app publishers worldwide. Some of the apps published by Facebook include the eponymous social networking app (and its low-bandwidth version, Facebook Lite), Facebook Messenger (also available as Messenger Lite), Facebook Pages Manager and Facebook Local. In the Google Play Store, Facebook Messenger, Messenger Lite and Facebook frequently rank among the top downloaded apps every month.

  8. U.S. social media users on Facebook protecting their data 2022. by...

    • statista.com
    Updated Dec 15, 2023
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    Statista (2023). U.S. social media users on Facebook protecting their data 2022. by generation [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341249/us-social-media-users-facebook-protecting-privacy-data-by-generation/
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 15, 2023
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    According to a September 2022 survey, 18 percent of social media users in the United States felt that Facebook protected their privacy and data, down from 27 percent in 2021. Overall, Millennials trusted the social media giant the most with their data in 2022, whilst Baby boomers were the least trusting, with just one in ten belonging to this generation feeling that Meta's Facebook protected their privacy and data.

  9. Users data

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Jul 27, 2017
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    karthickveerakumar (2017). Users data [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/karthickveerakumar/users-data/metadata
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Jul 27, 2017
    Dataset provided by
    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    karthickveerakumar
    Description

    Context

    There's a story behind every dataset and here's your opportunity to share yours.

    Content

    What's inside is more than just rows and columns. Make it easy for others to get started by describing how you acquired the data and what time period it represents, too.

    Acknowledgements

    We wouldn't be here without the help of others. If you owe any attributions or thanks, include them here along with any citations of past research.

    Inspiration

    Your data will be in front of the world's largest data science community. What questions do you want to see answered?

  10. Countries with the most Facebook users 2025

    • statista.com
    • ai-chatbox.pro
    Updated Jun 19, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Countries with the most Facebook users 2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-based-on-number-of-facebook-users/
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 19, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Feb 2025
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    Which county has the most Facebook users? There are more than 383 million Facebook users in India alone, making it the leading country in terms of Facebook audience size. To put this into context, if India’s Facebook audience were a country, then it would be ranked third in terms of largest population worldwide. Apart from India, there are several other markets with more than 100 million Facebook users each: The United States, Indonesia, and Brazil with 196.9 million, 122.3 million, and 111.65 million Facebook users respectively. Facebook – the most used social media Meta, the company that was previously called Facebook, owns four of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram. As of the third quarter of 2021, there were around 3.5 billion cumulative monthly users of the company’s products worldwide. With around 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the most popular social media worldwide. With an audience of this scale, it is no surprise that the vast majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through advertising. Facebook usage by device As of July 2021, it was found that 98.5 percent of active users accessed their Facebook account from mobile devices. In fact, almost 81.8 percent of Facebook audiences worldwide access the platform only via mobile phone. Facebook is not only available through mobile browser as the company has published several mobile apps for users to access their products and services. As of the third quarter 2021, the four core Meta products were leading the ranking of most downloaded mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp amassing approximately six billion downloads.

  11. Facebook Complete Stock Data[2012 - 2020][Latest]

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Aug 19, 2020
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    Aayush Mishra (2020). Facebook Complete Stock Data[2012 - 2020][Latest] [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/aayushmishra1512/facebook-complete-stock-data2012-2020latest/code
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    Dataset updated
    Aug 19, 2020
    Dataset provided by
    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    Aayush Mishra
    License

    https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

    Description

    Context

    Facebook is a company that literally every kid is aware of. Its a household name. People from various age groups are there on this social media website. It has helped many in connecting with different people and also has helped some of the investors by earning them a good amount of money. This data set contains the details of the stock of Facebook Inc.

    Content

    This data set has 7 columns with all the necessary values such as opening price of the stock, the closing price of it, its highest in the day and much more. It has date wise data of the stock starting from 2012 to 2020(August).

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    Facebook Transparency Report - Dataset OD Mekong Datahub

    • data.opendevelopmentmekong.net
    Updated Dec 20, 2017
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    (2017). Facebook Transparency Report - Dataset OD Mekong Datahub [Dataset]. https://data.opendevelopmentmekong.net/dataset/facebook-transparency-report
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    Dataset updated
    Dec 20, 2017
    Description

    As part of official investigations, government officials sometimes request data about people who use Facebook. The vast majority of these requests relate to criminal cases, such as robberies or kidnappings. In many of these cases, the government is requesting basic subscriber information, such as name and length of service. This report contain information requested by governments to Facebook.

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    Data from: Facebook users in United Arab Emirates

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    Updated Feb 15, 2025
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    NapoleonCat (2025). Facebook users in United Arab Emirates [Dataset]. https://napoleoncat.com/stats/facebook-users-in-united_arab_emirates/2025/02
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 15, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    NapoleonCat
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    Feb 2025
    Area covered
    United Arab Emirates
    Description

    There were 13 858 000 Facebook users in United Arab Emirates in February 2025. People aged 25 to 34 were the largest user group (5 900 000). The highest difference between men and women occurs within people aged 25 to 34, where men lead by 4 100 000.

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    Study on Facebook users - Dataset - B2FIND

    • b2find.eudat.eu
    Updated May 1, 2023
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    (2023). Study on Facebook users - Dataset - B2FIND [Dataset]. https://b2find.eudat.eu/dataset/0a6015a3-32d5-5192-8433-c31a15e1e4ad
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    Dataset updated
    May 1, 2023
    Description

    The study on Facebook users was conducted by infratest dimap on behalf of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. During the survey period from November 26 to December 4, 2018, 2,041 Facebook users were surveyed in online interviews (CAWI) on the following topics: internet use, Facebook groups, Facebook use, political content on Facebook, reaction to content, image experiment and Sunday question. Respondents were selected by quota sampling from an online access panel. Use of various internet services (Tinder, Facebook, Twitter, snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, online newspapers, none of the above); use of open or closed Facebook groups; Facebook content on political topics, on job-related topics, on hobbies, on entertainment or on other topics; type of Facebook use (read/ like/ share content, write comments, disseminate own content); political Facebook use (read/ like/ share political content, write comments on political topics, disseminate own content on political topics); reaction to Facebook content or comments (do I feel informed, entertained, annoyed, provoked, etc.). comments (feel informed, entertained, annoyed, provoked); agreement with various statements on Facebook (on Facebook others upset me, I show others their limits, I can speak my mind anonymously, I find many different opinions, I find opinions that are otherwise suppressed, I dare to say/ share things I would not otherwise say); party preference (Sunday question); comment (open) on a provocative image (split A: refugees, split B: Pegida). Demography: sex; age (year of birth); education; employment; occupational status; net household income (grouped); federal state. Additionally coded: serial number; weighting factor. Die Studie über Facebook-Nutzer wurde von infratest dimap im Auftrag der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung durchgeführt. Im Erhebungszeitraum 26. November bis 4. Dezember 2018 wurden 2.041 Facebook-Nutzer in Onlineinterviews (CAWI) zu folgenden Themen befragt: Internetnutzung, Facebook-Gruppen, Facebooknutzung, politische Inhalte auf Facebook, Reaktion auf Inhalte, Bildexperiment und Sonntagsfrage. Die Auswahl der Befragten erfolgte durch eine Quotenstichprobe aus einem Online-Access-Panel. Nutzung verschiedener Internetangebote (Tinder, Facebook, Twitter, snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Online-Zeitungen, nichts davon); Nutzung offener oder geschlossener Facebook-Gruppen; Facebook-Inhalte zu politischen Themen, zu berufsbezogenen Themen, zu Hobbies, zur Unterhaltung bzw. zu anderen Themen; Art der Facebook-Nutzung (lese/ like/ teile Inhalte, schreibe Kommentare, verbreite eigene Inhalte); politische Facebook-Nutzung (lese/ like/ teile politische Inhalte, schreibe Kommentare zu politischen Themen, verbreite eigenen Inhalt zu politischen Themen); Reaktion auf Facebook- Inhalte bzw. Kommentare (fühle mich informiert, unterhalten, verärgert, provoziert); Zustimmung zu verschiedenen Aussagen zu Facebook (auf Facebook regen mich andere auf, zeige ich anderen ihre Grenzen, kann ich anonym meine Meinung sagen, finde ich viele verschiedene Meinungen, finde ich Meinungen, die sonst unterdrückt werden, traue ich mich Dinge zu sagen/ teilen, die ich sonst nicht sagen würde); Parteipräferenz (Sonntagsfrage); Kommentar (offen) zu einem provozierenden Bild (Split A: Flüchtlinge, Split B: Pegida). Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter (Geburtsjahr); Bildung; Erwerbstätigkeit; berufliche Stellung; Haushaltsnettoeinkommen (gruppiert); Bundesland. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: lfd. Nummer; Gewichtungsfaktor.

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    Facebook Demographics

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Facebook Demographics [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 1, 2025
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    56.5% of Facebook users worldwide are male. This is in direct contrast to only 43.5% of Facebook being female.

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    Facebook Usage

    • searchlogistics.com
    Updated Apr 1, 2025
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    (2025). Facebook Usage [Dataset]. https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/social-media-user-statistics/
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 1, 2025
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    The average Facebook user spends about 19.6 per month on Facebook every month. This works out to be about 39 minutes per day.

  17. Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group

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    Updated Feb 11, 2022
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    Guess, Andrew, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker. Less Than You Think: Prevalence and Predictions of Fake News Dissemination on Facebook (New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019) (2022). Average Number of Fake News Stories Shared on Facebook, by Age Group [Dataset]. https://evidencehub.net/chart/average-number-of-fake-news-stories-shared-on-facebook-by-age-group-74.0
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    jsonAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Feb 11, 2022
    Dataset provided by
    The Lisbon Council
    Authors
    Guess, Andrew, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker. Less Than You Think: Prevalence and Predictions of Fake News Dissemination on Facebook (New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019)
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Measurement technique
    Survey (N=5000)
    Description

    The chart shows that Americans over 65 were more likely to share fake news to their Facebook friends, regardless of their education, ideology, and partisanship. The oldest age group was likely to share nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains on Facebook as those in the youngest age group, or about 2.3 times as many as those in the next-oldest age group. The data regarding the age group 18-29 and 30-44 are not displayed in the source, therefore the value of data in this chart are approximate, determined with pixel count.

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    Engagement with Facebook Posts with Civic News URLs

    • socialmediaarchive.org
    csv, pdf, xlsx
    Updated Jul 27, 2023
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    (2023). Engagement with Facebook Posts with Civic News URLs [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.3886/n3r7-br77
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    xlsx(44149), pdf(724746), xlsx(33969), csv(76863)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jul 27, 2023
    Description

    The metrics in this dataset measure users who engaged with posts with links to civic news URLs and the volume of their engagement. The dataset contains URL-level metrics from Facebook activity data for adult U.S. monthly active users, aggregated over the study period. Includes content views, audience size, content attributes, user attributes.

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    Exposure to Facebook Posts with Civic News Domains

    • socialmediaarchive.org
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    Updated Jul 27, 2023
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    (2023). Exposure to Facebook Posts with Civic News Domains [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.3886/tt1k-sk28
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    xlsx(44149), pdf(724746), csv(76863), xlsx(33969)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jul 27, 2023
    Description

    The metrics in this dataset measure users who viewed posts with links to civic news domains. The dataset contains domain-level metrics from Facebook activity data for adult U.S. monthly active users, aggregated over the study period. Includes content views, audience size, content attributes, user attributes.

  20. Potential Issues with FB Advertising Algorithms...

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    Updated Jun 2, 2023
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    OS BH-Labs (2023). Potential Issues with FB Advertising Algorithms... [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.767331.v1
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 2, 2023
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    figshare
    Authors
    OS BH-Labs
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    This fileset contains a series of screenshots taken from our facebook advertising account. A few days ago we noticed that some negative "SEO" tactics, for lack of a better term, were having a negative impact on the performance of ads and fan engagement on the facebook page that we've been building.

    I developed a custom software package, which utilizes nueural networks I've developed, to identify a target demographic, and suggest advertising content for said target demographic.

    After a short training period we were able to create advertisemsents on facebook that averaged a cost of 0.01 cents per like. We also had a fan page engagement of nearly 4 times that of major brands like Wal-Mart.

    Shortly after we began to obtain success we started noticing problems with our page. Since we have a stalker issue, we determined that the issues with our page were likely related to him.

    We assued this because we had a disproportinately high number of spammy, negative, and inapporpriate comments on our posts. Offline harassment of our staff by the stalker also increased significantly during this time.

    Curiously, we believe that the incident with the stalker allowed us to ascertain some interesting observations about Facebook's algorithims, which I've outlined below.

    We believe, after reseraching this issue, that Facebook's algorithims suffer from the following issues:

    1. They are easily gamed. We think that Facebook's algorithims are hypersensitive to negative comments being made on a post, and conversely likely positive ones as well. If a post is hidden, the comments are negative, or if a user interacts with the post negatively in some way, then Facebook's algorithims will "punish" your page.

    2. We think that a series of scripted fake bot accounts would easily cause the issues that we've been expriencing.

    As you can see from the data provided, over 90% of our likes come from paid facebook advertisement, therefore we do not have a significant number of fake accounts on our page brought in by third party advertising because we didn't do any of that.

    Moreover, we did not send any of our fans obtained via mailing lists, or offline contact to our facebook page, those fans participate with us via email and/or through our private Google+ community.

    So it is safe to say that our problems have not been caused by purchasing a large amount of fake likes from any third party vendor.

    In addition, because our likes were gained very quickly, at a rate of about 2.5k likes a day, we do not believe that we have suffered from changes in the general demographic of our Facebook fan base over time.

    Yet almost immediately after we started expericing trolling issues with our page, we also noticed a dip in the number of fans our posts were shown to by Facebook, and the performance of our ads began to go down, even though the content on our page had not changed.

    We attributed this to holes in Facebook's algorithims, and potentially to the excessive use of fake bot accounts by Facebook itself.

    We cannot prove the latter satement, but there have been similar reports before. Reference - http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/08/01/facebook-investigating-claims-that-80-of-ad-clicks-come-from-bots/

    This article from Forbes outlines how one startup company repoted that up to 80% of their Facebook likes were fake bot accounts even though they paid for advertising directly through Facebook.

    Our reserach suggests that Facebook's advertising platform functions as follows: - An advertiser pays for likes with Facebook, and the quality of the content on their page is initially assessed by those who are liking the page, but once the page obtains a following, we believe that the quality of the content is assessed by how many people like the posts on the page directly after they are posted.

    If a post gets hidden, marked as spammed, skipped over, whatever, then we beleive that Facebook kicks that post out of the newsfeeds. If this happens to a significant number of posts on the page, then we believe that Facebook places the page on an advertising black-list.

    Once on this black-list ads will begin to perform poorly, and content will drop out of newsfeeds causing even the most active page to go silent.

    We tested this by posting pictures of attractive blond women, which with our demographic would have normally obtained a large number of likes and we struggled to get even 10 likes at over 20k page likes when we would have previosuly obtained almost 100 likes without boosting at only 5k page likes.

    Why this probably isn't seen more often: In most cases this probably takes a while to occur as pages become old and fans grow bored, but in our case, because we have a stalker trolling our page with what appears to be hundres of scripted bot accounts, the effect was seen immediately.

    Our data suggests that it became a tug of war between our stalker's army of fake bot accounts (making spammy comments, hiding our posts from newsfeeds, etc) and the real fans that actually like our page (who were voting our conent up - i.e. liking it, etc).

    If you look at the graph of page likes in the figures provided - you can see that the darker purple are the fans we obtained via facebook advertising, well over 90%. We believe that the light purple (the "organic" fans) is mostly comprised of our stalker's fake drone accounts. We have less than 20 family members and friends liking our page, when we began this experiment we asked them not to interact with our page or the content.

    In conclusion: We still have a lot more work to do, but it is highly likely that many Facebook likes are either scripted bots, and/or that Facebook's "weighting" algorithims are very suceptible to gaming via negative "SEO" tactics. Conversely, they are likely sensitive to gaming via positive "SEO" tactics as well.

    Of course we cannot say for certain where the Facebook accounts that like a page come from without acess to their internal systems, but the evidence does strongly suggest that Facebook might be plagued with a large quantity of bot accounts, and that their algorithim has to be sensitive to actions from live users, so that the quality of the content can be easily ascertained. Otherwise it would be pretty easy for an advertiser to game Facebook's system by paying for, and getting, a large quantity of likes for content that is not appealing to any significant group of people.

    Again we have to reiterate that we have no solid proof of this, but our data strongly suggests that this is the case.

    We have reported the issues to Facebook, but interestingly, after we made it clear that we were going to analyze and investigate the issues with our page, we have been suddenly and incessently plagued with a never ending stream of "technical difficulties" related to our advertising account.

    If you'd like to collaborate on this project, please feel free to email me at Jamie@ITSmoleculardesign.com.

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Ron Bowes (Skull Security) (2015). Facebook Names Dataset [Dataset]. https://academictorrents.com/details/e54c73099d291605e7579b90838c2cd86a8e9575

Facebook Names Dataset

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171 million names (100 million unique) This torrent contains: The URL of every searchable Facebook user s profile The name of every searchable Facebook user, both unique and by count (perfect for post-processing, datamining, etc) Processed lists, including first names with count, last names with count, potential usernames with count, etc The programs I used to generate everything So, there you have it: lots of awesome data from Facebook. Now, I just have to find one more problem with Facebook so I can write "Revenge of the Facebook Snatchers" and complete the trilogy. Any suggestions? >:-) Limitations So far, I have only indexed the searchable users, not their friends. Getting their friends will be significantly more data to process, and I don t have those capabilities right now. I d like to tackle that in the future, though, so if anybody has any bandwidth they d like to donate, all I need is an ssh account and Nmap installed. An additional limitation is that these are on

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