Meta on X 

Meta Platforms, Inc. builds social apps, messaging, and mixed-reality hardware that the Menlo Park company presents as a path from a 2004 college network to ads-supported community products plus artificial intelligence. Facebook launched in 2004. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger sit in the same family as consumer surfaces people already use. The company still writes that advertising funds most of the free products, while Reality Labs covers Quest headsets, mixed reality, and longer-horizon interface research. Llama and other AI models appear in the company’s own developer language. Those claims belong on about.meta.com and in exchange filings; they are cited here only as Meta’s own yardsticks, not as an independent census of daily users. The operating catalogue is Family of Apps—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads as Meta names them—plus Reality Labs and AI research. Headquarters remain in California, with large offices the company lists worldwide. Official X, LinkedIn, and YouTube carry product films, research talks, and policy notes. They are not a hacked-account recovery desk, an ads-credit refund office, or a place to share bank details, credentials, one-time passwords, or payment data. Customers are people who post and message, creators who earn through tools Meta publishes, advertisers who buy Meta ads, and developers who build on Meta APIs. Commercial, media, and shareholder mail belong on the contact routes Meta publishes on about.meta.com, including investor relations. Advertising and in-app payments are not a bank account. Never send OTP, PIN, or CVV codes through social replies, and treat unexpected payment messages as fraud until verified inside the real Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp apps. Account recovery belongs in those apps’ published help flows. Follow the official pages for the operating social-and-reality company, then verify every app name, ads product, and headset claim at the source rather than treating a keynote as a safety audit. Mixed reality and AI are the two expansion sentences Meta keeps repeating: Quest hardware for presence, and models such as Llama for developers who accept the company’s licenses. Advertising remains the cash engine for Facebook and Instagram in the firm’s own segment notes. WhatsApp is described as a private-messaging surface with business tools on the side. Portuguese-language community notes that circulate about Meta should be read in this English company frame: 2004 Facebook origin, Instagram WhatsApp Messenger in the family, ads-supported consumer apps, mixed reality plus AI as the longer bet. Policies and transparency reports live on about.meta.com.