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- Meta is the company Mark Zuckerberg built. It was first called "The Facebook," then Facebook.
- Facebook is still a Meta app, along with WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, and the Horizon metaverse.
- Oculus was acquired by Meta and paved the way for the company's virtual reality ambitions.
Meta is the company formerly known as Facebook that Mark Zuckerberg first worked on while at Harvard, later dropping out to build the business. The story was popularized in the 2010 film "The Social Network."
Today Zuckerberg essentially owns Facebook and the rest of Meta with his majority stake, giving him primary control of the company and its divisions. Meta is publicly traded, so a single person or company does not technically own it.