Meta
Meta Platforms, Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the Big Tech companies. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. The company also operates an advertising network for its own sites and third parties; as of 2023, advertising accounted for 97.8% of its total revenue. Wikipedia
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Symbol: NASDAQ:META
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- Sep 9: Experience: Analysing Newsmakers launched in July, and is already seven episodes in. It features a former broadcast journalist and a clinical psychologist who take one news story and work out the psychology underneath it. Recent episodes: Keir Starmer standing down and the psychology of role exit, the Meta addictive-design trial and variable ratio reinforcement, and public shaming after the death of Professor Jason Arday.
- Aug 19: Metapodcast is a search engine for podcasts, searching "millions of moments" from top podcasts. It offers 25 free searches a day, it seems.
- Jul 13:
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.tv: This Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast with Leo Laporte and friends. This week, Apple is suing OpenAI for alleged trade secret theft; Meta is testing new AI glasses; and plenty more - he's joined by Wesley Faulkner, Louis Maresca, and Patrick Beja. - Apr 27: Meta is to cut 8,000 staff.
- Feb 27: In Giant Ideas this week, Nick Clegg - former UK Deputy Prime Minister - challenges some of the biggest assumptions about social media, such as whether it really drives political polarisation to how much evidence actually backs that claim. Drawing on his time inside Meta, he explains how content moderation is managed, why headlines push debates more than real data, and how social platforms have shifted from connecting friends to algorithm-driven content feeds. He also warns that the bigger risk ahead isn’t individual posts, but the growing fragmentation of the internet as governments impose diverging rules on data, AI, and digital platforms.
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