Mark Zuckerberg's terrible year: Facebook's devastating decline in users caps off turbulent 2021

Facebook's devastating earnings report marked the end of a difficult year for the company, which has been battered by whistleblower allegations, a major global service outage, and protests and controversy over its policies. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suffered a rough year in 2021, culminating in a devastating decline in users in the final quarter following a number of controversies Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security during a hearing about Facebook File: Protecting Kids Online in October Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the company's new name, Meta, during a virtual event in October. The aim of the protest is for all medical tattoo artists and breast cancer survivors to be able to freely post images without being blocked and subsequently losing their account Senior campaigner Flora Rebello Arduini with a 4-metre-high installation, depicting Mark Zuckerberg surfing on a wave of cash and surrounded by teenagers, outside the Houses of Parliament in London in October Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, center, poses during a visual protest, organised by campaign group SumOfUs, prior to her testimony at the European Parliament in Brussels in November Meanwhile, Zuckerberg drew mockery with a cringeworthy Fourth of July video showing him riding an electric surfboard while holding an American flag as John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads plays. In November, an Icelandic tourism campaign poked fun at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a video mocking the social media giant's name change announcement. Mark Zuckerberg impersonator 'Zach Mossbergsson' made a tourism campaign video for the company Inspired by Iceland, spoofing the Facebook founder's Meta announcement The impersonator copied Zuckerberg's stiff tone while donning his black sweater and sporting his short combed haircut in the video Mossbergsson then introduces the name of this 'product' which he dubs the 'Icelandverse' which is an 'enhanced actual reality without silly looking headsets.'