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  2. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc., [ 10] doing business as Meta, [ 11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [ 12][ 13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [ 14]

  3. List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held ...

  4. Lawsuits involving Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    Facebook, Inc. On May 18, 2016, Matthew Campbell filed a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly scanning private messages for marketing purposes, which violates federal privacy laws. Facebook argued that multiple private messages are scanned at once and that the URL data is anonymous and only used in a combined form.

  5. Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Federal Trade Commission v. Facebook, Inc.) is an ongoing antitrust court case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Facebook parent company Meta Platforms. The lawsuit alleges that Meta has accumulated monopoly power via anti-competitive mergers, with the suit centering on the acquisitions of ...

  6. Meta takes down thousands of Facebook, Instagram accounts ...

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    July 24, 2024 at 1:18 PM. Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and ...

  7. Mark Zuckerberg - Wikipedia

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    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( / ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman. He co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder. Zuckerberg has been the subject of multiple lawsuits ...

  8. Sheryl Sandberg - Wikipedia

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    e. Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) [ 2] is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. Sandberg served as chief operating officer (COO) of Meta Platforms, a position from which she stepped down in August 2022. [ 3] She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org. [ 4] In 2008, she was made COO at Facebook, becoming the ...

  9. Threads (social network) - Wikipedia

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    By default, Threads and Instagram accounts share the same username, profile picture, and display name, although the profile picture and display name can be customized. Users can choose which accounts they follow on Instagram will carry over to Threads, either with the other person's Threads account already created or set to automatically follow ...