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  2. 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 ...

  3. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook acquires Branch Media, and it is announced that the team working on the startup will join Facebook to work on conversations products for Facebook that builds on similar ideas as Branch Media's products, while Branch Media's existing products will continue to operate separately. Facebook confirms that the acquisition is a talent ...

  4. Meta Platforms - Wikipedia

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    Meta Platforms, Inc. 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]

  5. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. [7] As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States. [8][9] It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Reality Labs - Wikipedia

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    Reality Labs, formerly Oculus VR, is a business and research unit of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware and software, including virtual reality headsets such as Quest, and online platforms such as Horizon Worlds. In June 2022, several artificial intelligence (AI ...

  8. List of most-followed Facebook pages - Wikipedia

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    Facebook 's own page is the most-followed on the platform with 188 million followers. Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed individual user on Facebook with 170 million followers. Shakira is the most-followed female individual user on Facebook with 123 million followers. This article contains a list of the top 50 accounts with the largest ...

  9. Sophie Zhang (whistleblower) - Wikipedia

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    Sophie Zhang (whistleblower) Sophie Zhang is an American data scientist and whistleblower who formerly worked at the Facebook Site Integrity fake engagement team, created to deal with bot accounts, often controlled by authoritarian governments' entities. [2][3][4] From 2018 to 2020, while investigating those fake engagements, Zhang uncovered ...