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Meta Platforms, Inc., commonly known as Meta, is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The company was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 as TheFacebook, Inc., later renamed Facebook, Inc., and then rebranded to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021 to reflect its strategic shift towards the metaverse. Meta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol META. As of December 31, 2025, Meta reported approximately 78,865 employees. The company's revenue for the full year 2025 was $200.97 billion, with a trailing twelve-month revenue as of May 2026 reaching $214.96 billion. Its market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion in April 2024 and was between $1.85 trillion and $1.94 trillion USD as of August 2025.

Meta's core business revolves around its family of applications, which includes widely used social media platforms and communication services such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. The company primarily generates revenue through advertising across these platforms, which accounted for 97.8% of its total revenue in 2023. Additionally, Meta is heavily invested in developing the metaverse—an interconnected digital ecosystem spanning virtual and augmented reality technologies—through its Reality Labs segment, which includes products like Meta Quest VR devices. The company has also shifted increasing attention toward artificial intelligence, developing AI-powered products and investing significantly in AI infrastructure.

In terms of patent litigation, Facebook, as a component of Meta Platforms, Inc., appears to operate as a defendant operating company. The company has one tracked case where it is listed as a defendant: Sampo IP, LLC v. Facebook, filed in the United States District Court of Delaware in 2014. This single defendant-side appearance suggests a posture of defending against patent assertion entities rather than actively initiating patent suits.