Which company owns Instagram and WhatsApp under the corporate name adopted in 2021?

Meta Platforms owns Instagram and WhatsApp under the corporate name adopted in 2021.

Facebook, Inc. changed its corporate name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. The change distinguished the parent company from its flagship social network, which retained the name Facebook. Meta’s major products include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Quest virtual-reality devices.

The rebranding reflected chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s emphasis on the metaverse, a concept involving persistent digital spaces, avatars, and immersive computing. Meta’s largest source of revenue has remained digital advertising across its social platforms, while Reality Labs develops virtual- and augmented-reality products.

Meta’s market capitalization is tied to expectations about advertising, user engagement, artificial intelligence, and future hardware. A frequent confusion is that Instagram and WhatsApp are independent public companies; they are subsidiaries within Meta’s corporate group.