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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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    v. 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 ...

  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. Meta more than doubles Q1 profit but revenue guidance pulls ...

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    April 24, 2024 at 3:25 PM. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said Wednesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the ...

  6. Meta AI? Facebook, Instagram have new AI upgrade. Here's what ...

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    Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, rolled out its latest AI upgrade in a version called Llama 3. Social media users may have noticed a message at the top of their screens prompting ...

  7. Content moderation - Wikipedia

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    Comment moderation on a GitHub discussion, where a user called Mallory has deleted several comments before closing the discussion and locking it. On Internet websites that invite users to post comments, content moderation is the process of detecting contributions that are irrelevant, obscene, illegal, harmful, or insulting, in contrast to useful or informative contributions, frequently for ...

  8. Facebook owner Meta Platforms seeks to stop privacy breach ...

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    Meta Platforms will ask a court in Norway on Tuesday to stop a fine the country's data regulator has imposed on the owner of Facebook and Instagram for breaching users' privacy, in a case that ...

  9. 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 ...