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Facebook began to reduce its carbon influence after Greenpeace attacked it for its long-term reliance on coal and ensuing carbon footprint. In 2021 Facebook introduced that their global operations are supported by one hundred pc renewable vitality and they have reached net zero emissions, a goal set in 2018. A commentator in The Washington Post noted that Facebook constitutes a "large depository of data that documents each our reactions to occasions and our evolving customs with a scope and immediacy of which earlier historians could only dream". Especially for anthropologists, social researchers, and social historians—and subject to correct preservation and curation—the web site "will protect pictures of our lives that are vastly crisper and more nuanced than any ancestry document in existence". On March 6, 2018, BlackBerry sued Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp subdivision for ripping off key features of its messaging app. In 2018, Special Counsel Robert ...