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  2. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook enables users to control access to individual posts and their profile [320] through privacy settings. [321] The user's name and profile picture (if applicable) are public. Facebook's revenue depends on targeted advertising, which involves analyzing user data to decide which ads to show each user.

  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. Initial public offering of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg resisted buyout offers, suggesting the company was "definitely in no rush." For years, Facebook and Zuckerberg resisted both buyouts and taking the company public. The main reason that the company decided to go public is because it crossed the threshold of 500 shareholders, according to Reuters financial blogger ...

  5. Meta cannot delay US FTC from reopening privacy probe ... - AOL

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    Meta Platforms cannot delay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from reopening a probe into alleged privacy failures by its Facebook unit while the company pursues a lawsuit challenging the agency's ...

  6. Oversight Board (Meta) - Wikipedia

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    Criticism. Litigation. Related. v. t. e. The Oversight Board is a body that makes consequential precedent -setting content moderation decisions (see Table of decisions below) on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, in a form of "platform self-governance". [3] Meta (then Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the creation of the ...

  7. Lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook users have right to ...

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    A lawsuit filed against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is arguing that a federal law often used to shield internet companies from liability also allows people to use external tools to take ...

  8. Meta is putting AI front and center in its apps, and some ...

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    Meta has invested heavily in its AI efforts, and while they may not have generated as much buzz as OpenAI's ChatGPT, the company claims its new, open-sourced Llama 3 can compete with the best ...

  9. 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]