Meta
Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads and Manus. The company also operates an advertising network for its own sites and third parties; as of 2023, advertising accounted for 97.8 percent of its total revenue. Meta has been described as a part of Big Tech, which refers to the largest six tech companies in the United States, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and Nvidia, which are also the largest companies in the world by market capitalization. Wikipedia
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Symbol: NASDAQ:META
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- 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.
- Jan 6: Meta, the owner of Facebook, has announced SAM Audio - an AI tool that separates speech from background noise (or, indeed, guitars from a noisy bar, or a chirping bird from the sounds of the seaside). You can give it a go here.
- Sep 30, 2025: YouTube has paid $24.5mn to settle a lawsuit from President Trump, over the suspension of his account after the Jan 6 2021 attack on the Capitol. Meta and X have also settled.
- Jun 10, 2025: The New York Times reports that Youtube has relaxed its moderation rules, following the lead from Meta and Musk’s X.
- Feb 13, 2025: Launched yesterday, Panjaya is a multilingual AI-powered dubbing platform specifically built for podcast publishers, founded by ex-Apple TV and Meta execs. Unlike traditional dubbing, it also syncs voice, lip movements and gestures to preserve authenticity, and supports 29 different languages. The company suggests that 60% of Spotify’s podcast listeners are non-English speakers. You can try the tool for free for up to one-minute clips.
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