'Silicon Valley' clowns Facebook for Russian troll scandal

Everyone is lining up to take their shot at Facebook — and that’s including the HBO comedy, “Silicon Valley.”
The series returned on Sunday night with a new twist to its intro, with the Facebook logo briefly converting to Russian. Several eagle-eyed viewers spotted the diss — you can check it out below:
HBO’s Silicon Valley throwing some subtle shade Facebook’s way on the Season 5 premiere. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/JoDeOo7BBH
— Ryan McCaffrey (@DMC_Ryan) March 26, 2018
“Silicon Valley” appears to be taking a dig at Facebook’s PR fiasco, where Kremlin-linked trolls leveraged the social network to target voters during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially brushed the issue aside, saying it was “crazy” to think it played an important role in the road to the White House.
The original Facebook homepage from 2004 with a small picture of Al Pacino in the top left corner.
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Mark Zuckerberg originally described himself as not only the founder of Facebook, but also as the "Master and Commander" and "Enemy of the State."
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Here's what a Facebook group page looked like in 2005.
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For comparison, this is what a Facebook group page looks like today.
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The Facebook homepage in 2005 also listed all of the schools the social network was in -- and still included the photo of Al Pacino.
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The company decided to drop the "the" from its name in 2005, after it bought the domain Facebook.com for $200,000.
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We love this gem about "poking" from one of the original FAQ pages.
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Facebook's homepage in 2006 was a stripped-back affair, doing away with the list of schools in favor of a simple login option.
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Mark Zuckerberg's profile in 2006.
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Facebook launched the News Feed to display all your friends' activity in a single timeline in 2006.
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At the same time, Facebook introduced the Mini-Feed. But the entire concept of a News Feed resulted in some very public outrage. Some users even went so far to call one of Facebook's product managers the devil.
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Facebook's 2007 homepage contained the first instance of its now-synonymous logo and offered the "latest news" from friends.
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The Facebook of 2008 continued to refine the homepage and offered options for signing up.
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Facebook gained the "connected world" diagram in 2009, which lasted all the way until 2011.
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In 2009, Facebook's home page also got a facelift. Posts started to stream through the News Feed in real-time.
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That same year, Facebook also introduced its algorithm for determining the order in which status updates should be displayed.
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Facebook changed its logo font in 2010 but left the homepage much the same.
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2010 was also when Facebook brought notifications to the top navigation bar following yet another redesign.
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Facebook also rolled out a new, more visual profile in 2010. It added a row of recently tagged images below your name and basic profile information.
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Facebook left the design the same in 2011, but made the input boxes used to log in clearer.
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Facebook launched the News Ticker in 2011 so users could keep up with their friends while browsing through other parts of Facebook.
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The Facebook Timeline feels like it's been around since the beginning. But it launched in 2011 to act as a virtual timeline of your entire life.
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Facebook also split its instant messaging into a different app called Messenger in 2011. It's now got more than 800 million monthly users.
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Facebook swapped out the connected world diagram for a phone in 2012 as its users moved from desktop to mobile. Today, over 800 million people access Facebook on mobile everyday.
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Facebook started flooding the News Feed with sponsored stories in January 2012.
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Facebook settled on a design in 2013 that it would stay with for the next few years.
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This is what Facebook's mobile app looked like when it first launched.
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It has since been completely redesigned.
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Facebook also owns a bunch of other popular apps, most notably Instagram, which the company bought for $1 billion in 2012. With more than 400 million monthly users, that seems like a steal nowadays.
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2015 was a big year for Facebook that saw its first ever day with one billion users online simultaneously. The company had figured out how to make money from mobile too, turning it into a $300 billion business.
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Today, more than 1.5 billion people use the social network every single month.
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And more than 1.4 billion people use it on their mobile phones every month. Not bad, considering 12 years ago smartphones didn't even exist.
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Zuckerberg’s tune changed, however, last fall, after Facebook told Congress more than 100 million users had been hit by Russian propaganda. The 33-year-old chief exec said he was “dead serious” about the issue, adding, “protecting our community is more important than maximizing profits.” In the aftermath, Facebook added content moderators and tools to check whether users had been following pages with Russian backers.
On a lighter note, if you wanted to read how much Richard, Dinesh, Jared and Gilfoyle will be spending on rent for Pied Piper 2.0 this season, check out our episode “fact check” here.
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