META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ · Technology · Internet Content & Information · US
$616.77
+1.00%Aug 20, 2026, 09:45 UTC
Australia passed legislation on Thursday to impose a levy on large tech companies that fail to reach commercial deals with local news outlets for news content on their platforms.
Aug 20, 2026, 04:02 UTC
The Supreme Court of India ordered Meta to restore the Aam Aadmi Party's Gujarat Instagram and Facebook accounts, but Meta has not yet restored them as of August 20, 2026.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 17:00 UTC
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a $275,000 settlement with TaxAct over improper sharing of sensitive taxpayer data with Meta and Google between January 2018 and December 2022.
Aug 19, 2026, 11:05 UTC
Meta reported Q2 2026 revenue of $60.8 billion, up 28% year-over-year, with ad impressions up 14% and average ad pricing up 12%.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 11:01 UTC
Meta launched 'Meta Startup School' targeting early-stage startups.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 10:45 UTC
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructed employees not to use Meta's camera-equipped smart glasses while on duty, citing privacy and legal risks.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 10:45 UTC
Oklo is building its small modular reactor in Idaho, a step towards supplying power to Meta.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 10:21 UTC
The Supreme Court of India issued notice to Meta and X, seeking their responses on a plea about police uploading photos and videos of accused persons on social media, in the case Hemendra Patel v. Union of India.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 09:57 UTC
The Malaysian government, through spokesman Fahmi Fadzil, announced that 127,568 scam-related posts were removed, mostly from Facebook and TikTok, as of today.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 03:45 UTC
Singapore police announced a new Code of Practice for Social Media Services requiring Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok to verify advertisers' identities and block ads from unlicensed financial services firms, with compliance due by January 31, 2027.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 23:00 UTC
Kvontay Devon Pringle, a Mississippi content creator, reported earning more than $10,000 a month from AI-generated Facebook posts, with one post generating an estimated $2,800 through Meta.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 21:59 UTC
AEP Ohio, together with Meta, QTS, Amazon, Softbank Energy, and Google, announced a pledge of over $18 million on August 18 to support AEP Ohio's Neighbor to Neighbor program, which provides grants to help Ohioans pay their electric bills.
Aug 18, 2026, 19:19 UTC
Meta Platforms' stock fell 3.8% on August 18, 2026, amid rising legal and AI-related costs.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 17:30 UTC
Individual tech stocks declined, with NVIDIA down 2%, Meta Platforms down 3%, Western Digital and Seagate Technology each down more than 5%, and Marvell Technology and Sandisk down over 6%.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 15:20 UTC
Apple removed a nudify app from the App Store after Meta ran ads for it featuring a deepfake porn video resembling a prominent US politician.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 14:56 UTC
Apple released security updates for iPhones, iPads, and Macs, including a fix for CVE-2026-65346, an integer-overflow vulnerability in the ImageIO framework that could allow arbitrary code execution.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 08:05 UTC
Meta launched a suicide-prevention feature in Japan that notifies parents when users aged 13-17 search for sensitive keywords on Instagram.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 07:29 UTC
The Delhi High Court ordered Meta to disclose the material based on which it disabled the Instagram account of stock market analyst Aakanksha Gupta, in a civil suit filed by Gupta against Meta.
Source:Aug 17, 2026, 15:30 UTC
The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Meta, the 3 Million Technical Talent programme, and Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Nigeria announced a partnership to launch an AI academy in Nigeria.
Aug 17, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Meta and BlackRock announced a $14 billion data centre project, exposing lenders to an insurance gap due to underinsured risks.
Source:Aug 17, 2026, 00:59 UTC
Alibaba's AI model Qwen surpassed 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, becoming the world's top AI model, according to a Hugging Face report.
Aug 16, 2026, 13:16 UTC
Alibaba's open-source AI model family Qwen surpassed 30 billion cumulative downloads globally over the past six months, ranking first worldwide ahead of Meta and Google.
Source:Aug 15, 2026, 11:01 UTC
Alibaba's AI models reached 3 billion downloads, surpassing Meta and Google, according to a Hugging Face study.
Aug 12, 2026, 16:45 UTC
The Australian government announced it will introduce legislation to parliament on Thursday to expand the number of media companies that major digital platforms must negotiate with from six to at least eight, and impose a levy equivalent to 2.5% of their Australian advertising revenue, with a cap of 25% on any single deal and a 5% allocation to the Australian Associated Press.
Aug 7, 2026, 12:03 UTC
BlackRock raised multi-billion dollar debt financing for a Meta data center, prioritizing long-term investors such as pension and insurance funds in the bond placement to shield the deal from cooling AI-related bond market conditions.
Source:Aug 2, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Meta Platforms agreed to prepay for power from a reactor project Oklo is developing in Ohio, expected to be operational by 2030 and reach full power of up to 1.2 gigawatts by 2034.
Source:Aug 2, 2026, 23:47 UTC
Tech stocks fell sharply, with Alphabet shares down 6.9% and Tesla shares plunging 14.5%.
Source:Aug 1, 2026, 03:55 UTC
Meta disclosed that its cash flow generation plunged 91% compared to the same period last year.
Jul 31, 2026, 20:00 UTC
The combined share price of the Magnificent Seven (Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Tesla) fell by $797 billion last week as AI skeptics dumped stocks.
Source:Jul 28, 2026, 09:30 UTC
Meta announced a new strategic joint venture with BlackRock.