Meta Platforms

American technology company
Organization public_company Q380
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Meta was founded on July 29, 2004[1][2] and operates as a Delaware corporation[1]. Mark Zuckerberg serves as its CEO[3].

The company's product portfolio includes software, Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta pixel. In 2015, Meta employed 10,000 people[4].

Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 16 annual filings
Revenue
$200.97B
▲ 22.2% YoY FY2025
Net Income
$60.46B
▼ 3.1% YoY FY2025
Assets
$366.02B
▲ 32.6% YoY FY2025
EPS (diluted)
$23.49
▼ 1.6% YoY FY2025
$0.00$55.27B$110.53B$165.80B$221.06B FY2010: $1.97B · NI $606.00M (30.7% margin)FY2011: $3.71B · NI $1.00B (26.9% margin)FY2012: $5.09B · NI $53.00M (1.0% margin)FY2013: $7.87B · NI $1.50B (19.1% margin)FY2014: $12.47B · NI $2.94B (23.6% margin)FY2015: $17.93B · NI $3.69B (20.6% margin)FY2016: $27.64B · NI $10.22B (37.0% margin)FY2017: $40.65B · NI $15.93B (39.2% margin)FY2018: $55.84B · NI $22.11B (39.6% margin)FY2019: $70.70B · NI $18.48B (26.1% margin)FY2020: $85.97B · NI $29.15B (33.9% margin)FY2021: $117.93B · NI $39.37B (33.4% margin)FY2022: $116.61B · NI $23.20B (19.9% margin)FY2023: $134.90B · NI $39.10B (29.0% margin)FY2024: $164.50B · NI $62.36B (37.9% margin)FY2025: $200.97B · NI $60.46B (30.1% margin) '10'12'14'16'18'20'22'24'25
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2025-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-003942

Key Facts

  • Award received: Big Brother Awards[3]
  • Member of: DataCite[4], Computer & Communications Industry Association[5], OpenStreetMap U.S.[6], OpenStreetMap Foundation[7], datacenter coalition[8]
  • Country: United States[9]
  • Instance of: technology company[10], online service provider[11], business[12]
  • Founder: Mark Zuckerberg[13], Eduardo Saverin[14], Dustin Moskovitz[15], Chris Hughes[16], Andrew McCollum[17], Tracey Travis[18], Peggy Alford[19], Drew Houston[20], Marc Andreessen[21]
  • Item operated: Facebook[22], Instagram[23], WhatsApp[24], Messenger[25], Threads[26]
  • Owned by: Mark Zuckerberg[27], Dustin Moskovitz[28], Eduardo Saverin[29], BlackRock[30]
  • Named after: metaverse[31]
  • Headquarters location: Menlo Park[32]
  • Chief executive officer: Mark Zuckerberg[33]
  • Postal code: 94025[34]
  • Child organization or unit: Reality Labs[35], Facebook (Israel)[36], WhatsApp LLC[37], Facebook Ireland Limited[38], Facebook Israel[39], Novi Financial[40], PlayGiga[41], Beat Games[42], Mapillary[43], Oversight Board[44], Cassin Networks ApS[45], Q141112259[46], Facebook AI Research[47], Facebook Overseas, Inc[48]
  • Part of: Big Tech[49], S&P 100[50], S&P 500[51], Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google[52], Dow Jones Global Titans 50[53], Silicon Six[54], list of companies involved in the Gaza war[55]
  • Commons category: Meta Platforms, Inc.[56]
  • Stock exchange: Nasdaq[57]
  • Industry: information technology[58]
  • Chairperson: Mark Zuckerberg[59]
  • Inception: July 29, 2004[60]
  • Location of formation: Cambridge[61]
  • Significant event: Facebook 2018 data breach[62], Facebook 2019 data breach[63], Q140927350[64]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 984500Y657CE399B1547[65]

  • Registered legal name: Meta[66]

  • Legal jurisdiction: DK[67]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[68]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): D4PU[69]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[70]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[71]

  • Entity created: 1991-01-01[72]

  • LEI first registered: 2021-05-19[73]

  • LEI last updated: 2022-05-19[74]

  • LEI next renewal: 2022-05-19[75]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[76]

  • Registration authority: RA000170[77]

  • Authority entity ID: 15698381[78]

  • Other names: Fabita V/Dorete Larsen, Fabita[79]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[80]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Began / founded: 2004-01-04[81]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f53ec901-8515-4af4-8358-33985fc6f526[82]

Why It Matters

Meta Platforms has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[83] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[84]

It is credited with the discovery of EdgeRank[85], a Web feed algorithm[86].

FAQs

What awards did Meta Platforms receive?

Honors received include Big Brother Awards[3].

What did Meta Platforms discover?

Meta Platforms is credited as discoverer of EdgeRank[85].

References

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  2. [83] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [84] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · C960657 · 2026-10-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → Meta
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lex id: Meta"
  2. 3d ago · LAP959 · 2026-10-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant event → Facebook 2018 data breach, Facebook 2019 data breach, Facebook 2019 data breach +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Significant event: Q141805646"
  3. 4d ago · Cleofonte67 · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'ban', 'bcl', 'be', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'br', 'bs
    Sitelink count → 87
    Claims rich → —
    Name → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Founder: Mark Zuckerberg"
  4. 9w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Child organization or unit → Reality Labs, Facebook (Israel), WhatsApp LLC +13
    P14750 → 9FE5-D53D-855A-7105-F89B
    Delaware division of corporations file number → 3835815
    Item operated → Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp +2
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 9FE5-D53D-855A-7105-F89B, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  5. 9w ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Meta Platforms, Inc.'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Facebook, Inc.'}, {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'TheFacebook, Inc.'}
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||0 */ Changing order of values for [[Property:P1448|P1448]]"
  6. 11w ago · LAP959 · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant event → Facebook 2018 data breach, Facebook 2019 data breach, Facebook 2019 data breach +2
    Founder → Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz +8
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Significant event: Q140927350"
  7. 13w ago · DevKinoBR · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Influencewatch id → for-profit/meta
    Founder → Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz +8
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Founder: Sheryl Sandberg"
  8. 13w ago · Tcit · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Influencewatch id → for-profit/meta
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Influencewatch id: for-profit/facebook"
  9. 15w ago · DevKinoBR · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → https://www.facebook.com/facebook/info, http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/facebook-in, https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/META +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described at url: https://canaltech.com.br/empresa/meta/"
  10. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14544 → 4030
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14544: 4030, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259800|batch #259800]]"
  11. 18w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → Big Tech, S&P 100, S&P 500 +4
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Part of: Big Tech, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect Big Tech → Big Tech ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q30748112_Q31228"
  12. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → facebook-firm
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: facebook-firm, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289927769|facebook firm (#289927769)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  13. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0413243-Facebook-firma
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0413243-Facebook-firma, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  14. 20w ago · Luamssuk · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14409 → 60271648
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14409: 60271648"
  15. 20w ago · SlowDialupNarrowband · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → https://www.facebook.com/facebook/info, http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/facebook-in, https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/META +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described at url: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Meta"
  16. 21w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14478 → negligence
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14478: negligence"
  17. 25w ago · M2545 · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged at → —
    Member of → DataCite, Computer & Communications Industry Association, OpenStreetMap U.S. +2
    Image purged license → —
    Image unavailable reason → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member of: datacenter coalition, +DCC member ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/f2f53231aa0|details]])"
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