Meta

Meta Platforms, Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate that operates the world's largest social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, serving over 3 billion monthly users globally with approximately 70% market share. Founded as Facebook in 2004 and rebranded to Meta in 2021, the company dominates digital advertising markets as the second-largest platform globally while heavily investing in artificial intelligence development, virtual/augmented reality technologies through its Reality Labs division, and setting industry standards for social networking infrastructure and platform governance, though it continues facing regulatory scrutiny over privacy practices and market concentration.