September

In September, Facebook rolled out is vast surveillance machine to the web at large. Apart from advertisers (and Quartz!), nobody noticed.

But drones!

October

A month for traveling.

Mark Zuckerberg went to India and met the prime minister.

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Then he went to Indonesia and met the president-elect.

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Then he went to Japan and met another prime minister.

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Then he went to China and spoke Chinese.

November

An exciting month for Facebook fashion.

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Here’s the t-shirt in question:

Looks about right.
Looks about right.
Image: Reuters/Robert Galbraith

December

Nearly there! In December, Facebook made employees read Chinese propaganda, stood accused of “being morally unacceptable” (by the Daily Mail of all places) and was chided for participating in Russian censorship. But it was the “year in review” that really fired up passions to round off 2014.

A year to remember!

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