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Meta Platforms​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌‍‌​​‍‍‍‍‌‍‍​​

Tracked Owns Facebook and Instagram — both linked to documented cognitive and mental health harms.
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Parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Facts on record30
Connections mapped4
Sources cited25
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🧠 Cognitive harm you own/control
Primary confidence
Aggregated from 2 platforms owned, funded, or controlled by Meta Platforms.
53
Score 0–100
Moderate
Facebook
55
4 documented harms · Moderate
Instagram
44
3 documented harms · Moderate
Score combines documented harm count, severity weighting, platform reach, and engineered mechanisms. See full methodology →
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
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Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 1 elected official holds documented connections.
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Connected Officials
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

PATTERN person → [founder] → company 21× PATTERN company → [founder] → person 21× PATTERN company → [pac donor] → person 8× PATTERN person → [pac donor] → company 8× PATTERN person → [ownership] → company 5×
Connection Map
Key Connections
→ Entity #10788
pac_donor
2026 cycle: $40,000 via Meta Platforms, Inc. PAC. Coons has publicly attacked Facebook while accepting its donations, a dynamic he defended as not hypocritical.
← Entity #9080
founder
Founder, CEO and controlling shareholder of Meta (Cognitive Impact: Facebook)
← Entity #26
defense_contracting_partner
Meta partnered with Anduril on a U.S. Army combat goggle prototype contract (September 2025). Anduril's Palmer Luckey is the former founder of Oculus.
← Entity #1
former_board_member
Peter Thiel retired from Meta's board at the 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting after serving since 2005.
Facts (30)
Data Freshness
Fresh Last update: 5d ago · Avg age: 171d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
Raw Filing Records (30) — unsourced metadata
Pending Review Meta's Family of Apps segment generates 98.9% of net sales through operation of social networking, mes​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌‍‌​​‍‍‍‍‌‍‍​​saging, photo and video sharing platforms, with only 1.1% from virtual and augmented reality products.
Date: FY2025 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review In 2024, 79% of Meta's total costs and expenses were recognized in Family of Apps (advertising-driven) and 21% in Realit​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌‍‌​​‍‍‍‍‌‍‍​​y Labs, with substantially all revenue generated through advertising across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.
Date: FY2024 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Regulatory action: European Commission opened formal proceedings in March 2024 regarding Meta's 'subscription fo​‌‌‍‌​‌‍‌‍​​​‍‌‍‌​​‍‍‍‍‌‍‍​​r no ads' model compliance with Digital Markets Act requirements, with preliminary findings issued in July 2024.
Date: 2024-03-01 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Regulatory action: FTC filed notice of appeal on January 20, 2026, challenging the District Court's November 2025 ruling in favor of Meta in the monopolization case.
Date: 2026-01-20 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Regulatory action: U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in favor of Meta on November 18, 2025, finding the FTC failed to prove Meta currently possesses monopoly power in personal social networking.
Date: 2025-11-18 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Regulatory action: FTC antitrust trial against Meta began on April 14, 2025, challenging the company's acquisitions of Instagram (2012) and WhatsApp (2014) as anticompetitive.
Date: 2025-04-14 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Peter Thiel retired from Meta's board at the 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting after serving since 2005.
Date: 2022-05-25 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Seven of Meta's ten male board members are billionaires, including Marc Andreessen, John Arnold, John Elkann, Drew Houston, Hock Tan, Tony Xu, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Date: 2025-01-07 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta appointed UFC CEO Dana White and two other white men to its board in January 2025, shifting board composition to 10 men and 3 women (23% female).
Date: 2025-01-07 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta spent $26,290,000 on federal lobbying in 2025, hiring 21 additional lobbyists compared to 2024 to address data center and AI policy issues.
Date: 2025-12-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Regulatory enforcement action: FTC v. Meta antitrust trial began with CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying on first day regarding Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions.
Date: 2025-04-14 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Earnings report: Meta filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, disclosing investment focus on AI, metaverse, and infrastructure.
Date: 2025-01-29 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Earnings report: Meta issued press release and held conference call regarding Q3 2024 financial results.
Date: 2024-10-30 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Earnings report: Meta reported Q4 and full year 2024 financial results, with revenue of $164.5B for FY2024 and cash position of $77.81B as of Dec 31, 2024.
Date: 2025-01-29 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta's Llama AI models were made available to U.S. government agencies including defense and national security applications under the OneGov agreement with GSA (September 2025). The U.S. Army also awarded a combat goggle prototype contract to an Anduril-Meta team.
Date: 2025-09-22 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration fund — its first-ever contribution to a presidential inauguration — after declining to contribute to the 2017 fund. Meta also paid $25 million to settle a lawsuit Trump filed against the company.
Date: 2025-01-13 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta expanded its board of directors in 2025, adding Dana White (UFC CEO and Trump confidant), John Elkann (Stellantis Chair), Charlie Songhurst (tech investor), Dina Powell McCormick (former Republican/Goldman Sachs official), and Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO), bringing total board size to approximately 13 members.
Date: 2025-01-06 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review The FTC's antitrust trial against Meta began in April 2025, alleging Meta illegally acquired Instagram (2012, $1 billion) and WhatsApp (2014, $19.3 billion) to eliminate nascent competitive threats. The FTC appealed a 2024 district court dismissal; the case threatens unwinding of the deals.
Date: 2025-04-14 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review In January 2025, Meta ended its U.S. third-party fact-checking program, replacing it with a Community Notes system. The Oversight Board criticized the decision as 'hasty' and in 'departure from regular procedure,' while hate speech and violent content on Facebook subsequently increased.
Date: 2025-01-07 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta spent $7.99 million on federal lobbying in Q1 2025 alone — a 43.19% increase from Q4 2024 — amid Congressional debate on the TAKE IT DOWN Act. Total lobbying in 2024 was previously reported at approximately $10 million in the EU and $7.6 million in a single U.S. quarter.
Date: 2025-03-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta's PAC (META PLATFORMS, INC. PAC, FEC ID C00502906) raised $341,607 in the 2023-2024 cycle and contributed $197,300 to federal candidates — 56.74% to Republicans and 40.22% to Democrats. The PAC has been active since September 30, 2011.
Date: 2024-12-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Cumulative GDPR fines against Meta exceed €2.5 billion, including a record €1.2 billion (May 2023) for unlawful EU-US data transfers, €251 million (Dec 2024) for a 2018 data breach, €91 million (Sep 2024) for plaintext password storage, and earlier fines totaling €405 million.
Date: 2023-2024 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta was fined €797.72 million by the European Commission in November 2024 for antitrust violations related to tying Facebook Marketplace to its social network. Meta appealed. In April 2025, the Commission fined Meta an additional €200 million under the Digital Markets Act for its 'pay or consent' advertising model.
Date: 2024-11-14 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Global workforce was 78,865 employees as of December 31, 2025, up 6.48% from 74,067 in 2024. In April 2026, Meta announced layoffs of approximately 10% of its workforce (~8,000 jobs) amid the pivot toward AI investments.
Date: 2025-12-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Reality Labs posted a $19.1 billion operating loss in 2025 on revenue of $2.2 billion, bringing cumulative losses since 2020 to approximately $83-90 billion. The division lost $4.03 billion in Q1 2026 alone.
Date: 2025-12-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Family daily active people (DAP) averaged 3.58 billion in December 2025, up 7% year-over-year. Facebook MAUs reached 3.07 billion, Instagram MAUs hit 3 billion, and Meta AI reached 1 billion MAUs across the family of apps.
Date: 2025-12-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Capital expenditures totaled $72.22 billion in 2025, with 2026 guidance surging to $115–$135 billion — driven primarily by AI infrastructure including the Meta Superintelligence Labs initiative. The company plans to invest $600 billion in U.S. AI data centers over three years.
Date: 2026-01-28 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Total revenue for FY2025 was $200.97 billion (up 22% YoY), Q4 2025 revenue was $59.89 billion (up 24% YoY). Net income for Q4 2025 was $22.8 billion with EPS of $8.88. Advertising revenue constituted 98.7% of total revenue.
Date: 2025-12-31 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta Platforms, Inc. was originally incorporated as TheFacebook, Inc. in Delaware on July 29, 2004, renamed Facebook, Inc. in 2005, and renamed Meta Platforms, Inc. on October 28, 2021. Its principal executive offices are at 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, California. IRS Employer ID: 20-1665019.
Date: 2004-07-29 Added: 02 May 2026
Pending Review Meta Platforms filed filing with the SEC on 2022-02-16. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2022-02-16 Added: 23 Apr 2026
All Connections (4)
→ Entity #10788
pac_donor primary
2026 cycle: $40,000 via Meta Platforms, Inc. PAC. Coons has publicly attacked Facebook while accepting its donations, a dynamic he defended as not hypocritical.
← Entity #9080
founder, ownership, founder_chairman_and_controlling_shareholder primary
Founder, CEO and controlling shareholder of Meta (Cognitive Impact: Facebook) · Owner via Meta Platforms (Cognitive Impact: Instagram) · Zuckerberg holds ~58-61% voting power through Class B super-voting shares while owning ~13-15% of economic equity. Meta's proxy states he may vote 'in his own interests.' He controls all major corporate decisions including CEO succession.
← Entity #26
defense_contracting_partner primary
Meta partnered with Anduril on a U.S. Army combat goggle prototype contract (September 2025). Anduril's Palmer Luckey is the former founder of Oculus.
← Entity #1
former_board_member primary
Peter Thiel retired from Meta's board at the 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting after serving since 2005.
Sources (25)
FY2025 ↗ Revenue concentration: Meta's Family of Apps segment generates 98.9% of net sale… market_handoff Processed
2026-01-20 ↗ Regulatory exposure: FTC filed notice of appeal on January 20, 2026, challenging… market_handoff Processed
2025-11-18 ↗ Regulatory exposure: U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in favor of … market_handoff Processed
2022-05-25 ↗ Governance signal: Peter Thiel retired from Meta's board at the 2022 Annual Shar… market_handoff Processed
2025-01-07 ↗ Governance signal: Meta appointed UFC CEO Dana White and two other white men to … market_handoff Processed
2025-12-31 ↗ Governance signal: Meta spent $26,290,000 on federal lobbying in 2025, hiring 21… market_handoff Processed
2025-04-14 ↗ Corporate event: FTC v. Meta antitrust trial began with CEO Mark Zuckerberg test… market_handoff Processed
2025-01-29 ↗ Corporate event: Meta filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended… market_handoff Processed
2024-10-30 ↗ Corporate event: Meta issued press release and held conference call regarding Q3… market_handoff Processed
2025-01-29 ↗ Corporate event: Meta reported Q4 and full year 2024 financial results, with rev… market_handoff Processed
2025-04-23 ↗ Wide-Ranging Decisions Protect Speech and Address Harms — Meta Oversight Board external_handoff Processed
2025-05-31 ↗ Facebook sees rise in bullying and violent content after Meta eases rules to app… external_handoff Processed
2025-09-22 ↗ GSA, Meta Announce OneGov Deal for Llama AI Models external_handoff Processed
2025-09-08 ↗ U.S. Army awards combat goggle contracts to Anduril-Meta team, Rivet external_handoff Processed
2025-11-21 ↗ What might big tech want from the Trump admin? external_handoff Processed
2026-04-23 ↗ Meta to Cut 10 Percent of Work Force external_handoff Processed
2026-01-29 ↗ Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won't be any better external_handoff Processed
2024 ↗ PAC Profile: Meta — OpenSecrets external_handoff Processed
2025-05-13 ↗ Meta Platforms Pours Nearly $8M into Lobbying as TAKE IT DOWN Act Passes Congres… external_handoff Processed
2025-04-23 ↗ EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe's digital rules external_handoff Processed
2026-04-10 ↗ The Trump administration is getting angry as EU Big Tech fines top $7 billion in… external_handoff Processed
2026-01-28 ↗ Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results external_handoff Processed
2026-01-29 ↗ Meta Platforms, Inc. — 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K external_handoff Processed
2026-04-23 UNVERIFIED SEARCH_ERROR: Meta Platforms not found in opencorporates claim_flag Processed
2022-02-16 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Meta Platforms (2022-02-16) web_search Processed