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May 11th, 2013

Vin Diesel is explaining the secret to his chart-topping Facebook popularity.

The Fast & Furious star has 41 million likes on the social networking site, and was even the number 1 fan page in the world at one point.

“What Facebook didn’t realize is something very big was about to happen, and that was — for the first time in history, and it’s kind of a fluke they didn’t see this coming — when I jumped on that page in April 2009, I started talking to people. In the realest ways,” Diesel tells Entertainment Weekly.

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September 22nd, 2011

Andy Samberg opened the Facebook F8 conference keynote address as “Mark Zuckerberg” on Thursday, before the real Zuckerberg came out to introduce the new and exciting ways his company will control humanity for the foreseeable future.

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June 29th, 2011

Justin Timberlake is taking an ownership stake in MySpace.

The singer-actor, who starred as Facebook pioneer Sean Parker in The Social Network, will play a “major role in developing the creative direction and strategy” for the rival platform.

Specific Media, which today acquired MySpace from News Corp., made the announcement late Wednesday.

“There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect,” said Timberlake in a statement.

“MySpace has the potential to be that place.”

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June 21st, 2011

Facebook removed Roger Ebert’s page after the famed film critic’s blunt assessment of Ryan Dunn’s fatal car crash provoked intense and sometimes malicious comments.

Ebert was upset with Facebook’s decision, and tweeted about it.

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January 31st, 2011

Hollywood’s most likable superstar is ready to be “liked.”

Tom Hanks officially joined Facebook, posting an introductory video and immediately gaining hundreds of thousands of fans.

“I’m that actor in some of the movies you liked and some you didn’t,” he writes in his bio. “Sometimes I’m in pretty good shape, other times I’m not. Hey, you gotta live, you know?”

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January 12th, 2011

Selena Gomez’s Facebook and Twitter accounts have been hacked. The hacker has tweeted a handful of strange links, and acknowledges his or her handiwork by saying, “This account has been hacked by, PKinj0r – Aka – Prokill the Video.”

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December 15th, 2010

On Monday, “The Today Show” anchor Matt Lauer sat down with Time managing editor Rick Stengel to discuss the six finalists for the magazine’s annual “Person of the Year” cover. Today, it was announced that Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2010 is…

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December 9th, 2010

In today’s lineup, James Franco gets soapy, Prince William gets sticky, and Dianna Agron makes a clean break.