Facebook's stock price has had a rollercoaster year driven by an ad boycott, censorship controversies, and blockbuster results. Here are its biggest moves in 2020.

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Facebook shares are seeing a steady fall as more advertising brands join a boycott movement against the social-media giant.

The tech giant was one among the big few to perform comparatively well despite the storm of the pandemic, but its stock now tells us a different story.

Markets Insider rounded up some of Facebook's big stock moves so far this year.

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As the poster child of Silicon Valley success, Facebook is very rarely a company that avoids the limelight, and 2020 has been no different.

In recent weeks, hundreds of brands have boycotted advertisement collaborations on the social-media platform over its refusal to censor or remove offensive posts by President Trump about protests in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

In a prominent example of one such post, Trump wrote in reference to protests in Minneapolis that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

Responding to Zuckerberg's inaction, over 400 brands including Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Unilever, Verizon, Ford, Ben & Jerry's, and The North Face halted their paid advertising on Facebook some of them just for the month of July.

Facebook shares slid 8.3 last week as advertisers were joining the boycott against the platform.

That move, however, was not the only big shift in the company's stock price this year.

Markets Insider rounded up big stock moves for the company so far in 2020.March 9: The pandemic strikes and hits the company's share price

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On March 9, Facebook shares fell as much as 8.8 likely driven by a sharp plunge in the overall market from uncertainty related to the coronavirus.

Aside from that, a brewing oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia meant that demand for its advertising products could diminish significantly.

March 24: Advertising dwindles but Facebook sees a huge spike in platform activity

On March 24, Facebook said it had seen large spikes in activity across messaging and Facebook news feeds, but also said: "We don't monetize many of the services where we're seeing increased engagement, and we've seen a weakening in our ads business in countries taking aggressive actions to reduce the spread of COVID-19."

The company declined to say how much its revenue would be hurt.

Facebook's shares dropped as much as 13.3 .

April 29: Shrugging off coronavirus to report 'stability' in ad revenue

On April 29, Facebook's stock soared as much as 16 after the company reported its first-quarter earnings.

Despite a "significant reduction" in demand for ads, its revenue rose 26 year-on-year to about 15 billion. Its digital ads market took a major hit in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it would not provide full-year guidance.

Facebook's role in connecting people became even more notable this year and was one of the companies able to withstand early losses amid the pandemic.

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