Last month, members of Iranian President Hassan Rohani's cabinet decided to expand their social media presence by using proxy servers to launch their own Facebook pages. It began when Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, announced that he and his children were updating his public page, which currently displays 205,000 "likes."

Lean In author and Facebook executive has to fend off rumors that she'll ditch her post to be a full-time literary celeb—and maybe even run for office. Seen here on a recent visit to China's State Council Information Office

Zuck promised more details on how much of your online life Facebook hands over to the government, and he's starting to deliver. Bonus: we're not just getting The Government, but dozens of governments around the world. Guess who Facebook is working with the most?

It'll be quite some time before the social network's Manhattan vanguard moves to its sprawling, 100,000 square foot Frank Gehry-designed space. But even a peek at this model shows that it's going to be a desk palace fit for tech royalty.

What'd you do on Friday? Best-selling motivational author Sheryl Sandberg netted $91 million dollars in Facebook stock sales, a fortissimo note after months of steady selling.

"I was minding my own business last night when I got the note below from a respected investor," disgraced Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget recently wrote on his blog. That investor is almost certainly Silicon Valley titan Marc Andreessen, shitting on the Washington Post's erstwhile publisher—and his fellow Facebook board member.

Or at the very least, much larger, more expensive, and includes a petting zoo. Is that a guy in chain mail making giant bubbles? It's all happening right now, in a Californian parking lot, far, far away.

Your shared links and mobile uploads are alright, but let's be honest, no one really cares about you. Your Facebook status is going to get like, ten likes, tops. It's not going wide. But if a famous person does anything online, we'll click it—and AllThingsD reports the social network is courting the a-list like never before.

Unless the company recently acqui-hired an ironic sense of humor, Facebook might want to give its graphic design interns a brief lesson on history. Or hubris. Or both!

For the past couple of years, bored tech writers have been telling this spooky ghost story about teens bored with Facebook. Today, during Facebook's latest earnings report, Zuckerberg denied the youth exodus, and TechCrunch's resident Facebook sleeper agent can barely keep it in his teen pants.

Stock analysts are usually happy with nothing except insane, impossible financial performance (see: Apple), but today investors are content. Facebook's earnings are huge—Sean Parker wedding huge—particularly in mobile ads, where it's needed most.

When last we saw Stanley Druckenmiller, he was predicting the next financial implosion. But the Wall Street winner and GOP-supporter must think America will be around for at least another couple years, because he's joining the FWD.us party.

While original Facebook employee Chris Hughes is busy trying to restart The New Republic, his equally cherubic husband Sean Eldridge has a project of his own: let's get elected to Congress in a place we aren't from.

We know FWD.us has been working both sides of the aisle with covert TV ads, but the social network's corporate PAC is also pushing its immigration agenda with a more traditional ploy: cash handouts. Here's who's on the take, and for how much:

San Mateo County holds a population of over 700,000. More importantly, it holds the headquarters of Facebook. According to new government figures, the county earns more than anywhere else in America—$168,000 per year on average. Facebook employees have singlehandedly skewed the whole area.

At least when it comes to HR at Facebook, Path, Squarespace, and Etsy. The following composite was pieced together by Branch co-founder Cemre Güngör, and shows just how unimaginative the Idea Economy can be.

Zuck hit the streets of San Francisco over the weekend—along with hundreds of Facebook employees—as part of the city's gay pride parade. [Facebook]

Even without Winklevii to fend off, with PRISM panic and FISA fights, it's still been a hell of a time to be legal counsel at Facebook. Now it's a new guy's problem.