Which company created Facebook in 2004 and changed its corporate name to Meta in 2021?

Meta Platforms created Facebook in 2004 and changed its corporate name to Meta in 2021.

Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. It began as a social-networking service for college students before expanding to users worldwide.

The parent company was known as Facebook, Inc. until October 2021, when it adopted the name Meta Platforms. The rebranding reflected a strategic emphasis on building the metaverse, while Facebook remained the name of the social-networking platform.

Meta’s other major products include Instagram, acquired in 2012, and WhatsApp, acquired in 2014. The company’s market value is therefore tied to a family of platforms and its advertising business, not just the original Facebook website.