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On 29 October 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Meta (company). The result of the discussion was not moved.

Founding date

Does anyone have a source for Meta Platforms, Inc. being founded on January 4th (located at the top of the page in the details pane)? I've seen other sites claim February 4th as well as the Wikipedia article for Facebook the service here: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Facebook Copertina5 (talk) 20:47, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are dozens of companies called Meta Platforms, of which 6 branches founded since 2020. the main companies were simply renamed, so their founding date is much earlier. Nemo 07:08, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 29 October 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus not to move per WP:NATDIS. (closed by non-admin page mover) Raladic (talk) 05:10, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Meta Platforms → Meta (company) – Although its official name is Meta Platforms, its overwhelmingly WP:COMMONNAME is Meta. PhotographyEdits (talk) 16:00, 29 October 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 04:26, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Popcornfud (talk) 16:13, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment See this previous discussion, which resulted in the current article title. Note that Meta (company) represents a WP:PDAB. 162 etc. (talk) 17:30, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That was a different discussion about moving away from an incorrect name. And that discussion was years ago, we now have more RS to use in this discussion. PhotographyEdits (talk) 23:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:NATURALDIS. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose While just "Meta" is a WP:COMMONNAME in internet searches, we must determined that this article is also a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name "Meta", which is likely not in case (Meta Greek prefix is also equal in this case due to long-term significance). Take the case of Paramount, while it mostly refer to Paramount Pictures and its parent company, we cannot determined which one is the Primary topic. 103.111.100.82 (talk) 21:15, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is irrelevant here, because I'm still supporting tre use of parentheses disambiguation. PhotographyEdits (talk) 23:19, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per COMMONNAME.--Ortizesp (talk) 17:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:NATDIS. Arnav Bhate (talk • contribs) 18:44, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. --Coolcaesar (talk) 19:12, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you mean "Meta Platforms" is the common name, or something else? PhotographyEdits (talk) 12:52, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
At two years since the corporate name change, the company has already displaced the Greek prefix as the most common usage in the English language. I would support a move to Meta and moving the current article there to Meta (disambiguation). --Coolcaesar (talk) 23:57, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That is extreme WP:recentism Cremastra (u — c) 00:05, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Oppose per WP:NATDIS. A similar example would be Apple Inc., not Apple (company) TiggerJay (talk) 02:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, there's natural disambiguation. Cremastra (u — c) 02:10, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Donation to Trump

Under lobbying it should include:

Meta agrees to pay Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram suspensions

[1]https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279570/meta-trump-settlement-facebook-instagram-suspensions Uhhhhhhhhok (talk) 02:52, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As you almost certainly already recognize, characterizing such a settlement as a "donation" is a point of view and not a fact. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 03:50, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the article it states “The payment represents a significant victory for Trump, and another step in Zuckerberg's efforts to court him.”

If you’re courting politicians, that’s lobbying is it not?

Would a separate section with heading “Efforts to Court Politicians” be a more appropriate way to present this information? Uhhhhhhhhok (talk) 04:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mention of the settlement makes sense. Trying to frame it as "courting politicians" seems WP:POV/WP:SYNTH. Since you have only 3 other edits before this, I am concerned you might have a paritcular POV you're trying to insert here? --ZimZalaBim ^talk 04:28, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can frame it how you like but I don’t think I’m allowed to make edits but it should be publicly visible on Wikipedia that they are settling this for $25 million and perhaps add it was a possible attempt to court Trump. Uhhhhhhhhok (talk) 05:57, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]