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Facebook (company, historical name) announced new name as ↓ Meta
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Date 2021-10-28 · announcement Activity stage announced Transition scope name announcement Scope and limits The source explicitly says the corporate structure is not changing. This is a name announcement, not incorporation, merger or legal succession.
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Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company ↗ Meta · 2021-10-28
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Paraphrase Meta was introduced as the new company brand while corporate structure remained unchanged.
Location in source Opening paragraph and paragraph beginning “Our corporate structure is not changing”.
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Source details and check notes Authors Meta Version Page dated October 28, 2021 with November 7, 2022 update shown. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-29 Language English (en) Attribution Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company — Meta Reuse No redistribution licence asserted.. Source-linked metadata and brief evidence paraphrases; original text remains with its publisher. Check notes Passage checked by machine against the identified source expression. No human editorial acceptance or independent verification of implementation is implied. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. An explicit historical naming announcement links the earlier named institutional referent to the newly named referent. Dataset identities remain distinct. This is not acquisition, merger, ownership transfer or independently established legal succession.
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