Before 2016, sentiment about Facebook was positive in every month except perhaps around its IPO period.

Judge as of 2024-09-18, about the period before 2016. Allow for the hedge ('except for maybe this IPO period'). True: media coverage and public-opinion data from before 2016 show that sentiment about Facebook was predominantly positive throughout, with any major negative episodes confined to around the 2012 IPO. Mostly true: sentiment was broadly positive, with only brief or minor negative episodes outside the IPO period. Mixed: positive sentiment was common, but there were several sustained, prominent negative periods outside the IPO (for example, the 2006 News Feed backlash, the 2007 Beacon controversy, the 2010 privacy controversies, the 2011 FTC consent decree, the 2014 emotional-contagion study). Mostly false: the pre-2016 record shows frequent, repeated negative sentiment, so 'not a month ... anything but positive' substantially overstates a period that was positive overall. False: sentiment before 2016 was predominantly negative or mixed. Because the claim says every month, documented major negative controversies outside the IPO period weigh heavily against true.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 A look back in IPO: Facebook’s trailing profit and mobile intrigue | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 22 August 2017

   “The company’s ensuing share-price declines led to a dramatic spurt of negative coverage of the company.”

2. E2 Timeline: Facebook's Stormy Relationship with Privacy - MediaShift MediaShift · 8 February 2011

   “Of all public sector companies, Facebook ranked among the bottom five percent in consumer satisfaction, according to the report.”

3. E3 Timeline: Facebook's Stormy Relationship with Privacy - MediaShift MediaShift · 8 February 2011

   “It attracted 284,000 members in less than two days, which was an especially impressive mobilization in what was then a much smaller user community.”

4. E4 10 ways Facebook has annoyed the world - BetaNews BetaNews · 4 February 2014

   “Thousands (40,788 people) pledged to delete their accounts in protest on 31 May 2010, which they dubbed Quit Facebook Day.”

The evidence shows a dated protest outside the IPO period (Quit Facebook Day, 2010) [E4] and a low consumer-satisfaction ranking reported in 2011 [E2], which count against 'true'. It does not document several sustained, prominent negative periods, and it does not show how common positive sentiment was, so it cannot tell 'mostly true', 'mixed' and 'mostly false' apart [E3].