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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]
META II, a compiler-writing language; Meta key, a modifier key on 1970s/80s workstation keyboards; FF Meta, a typeface; Metasequoia (software), a 3D computer graphics package; Metaverse, proposed networks of 3D virtual worlds for social connection; Imagination META, a microprocessor; Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia Foundation project
Meta-Wiki logo. Meta, Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (meta.wikimedia.org) is a wiki-based website that is auxiliary for coordination of all the Wikimedia Foundation wikis. Created as Meta-Wikipedia in November 2001, it now serves several distinct roles: Discussion and formulation of the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, and in ...
Meta AI is a company owned by Meta (formerly Facebook) that develops artificial intelligence and augmented and artificial reality technologies. Meta AI deems itself an academic research laboratory, focused on generating knowledge for the AI community, and should not be confused with Meta's Applied Machine Learning (AML) team, which focuses on the practical applications of its products.
Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held by rival Friendster. The majority of the companies acquired by Meta are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Meta Platforms has also faced user safety criticism regarding Horizon Worlds due to sexual harassment occurring on the platform. [40] [41] [42] In 2021, Meta made a loss of over $10 billion on its metaverse development department, with Mark Zuckerberg saying he expected operating losses to "increase meaningfully" in 2022. [43]
Class Action v. Meta Platforms Inc. In July 2022, a former Army vet and member of Facebook's escalation team sued Facebook. The lawsuit claimed that Facebook introduced a tool in 2019 to allow staff access to deleted Messenger data and that this data was sometimes shared with law enforcement. [129] July 2022 META v. Meta Platforms Inc.
Meta-Wiki – a central wiki for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community; Wikimedia Incubator – a wiki for drafting the core pages of new language editions in development; MediaWiki.org – a wiki for coordinating work on the MediaWiki software