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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. Oversight Board (Meta) - Wikipedia

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    On May 6, 2020, Facebook announced the 20 members that would make up the Oversight Board. [22] Facebook's VP of Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg described the group as having a "wide range of views and experiences" and who collectively lived in "over 27 countries", speaking "at least 29 languages, [23] but a quarter of the group and two of the four co-chairs are from the United ...

  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. 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 ...

  8. Meta's Oversight Board says deepfake policies need update and ...

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    Meta, then called Facebook, launched the Oversight Board in 2020 in response to criticism that it wasn’t moving fast enough to remove misinformation, hate speech and influence campaigns from its platforms. The board has 21 members, a multinational group that includes legal scholars, human rights experts and journalists. 07/25/2024 13:35 -0400

  9. 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 ...