Meta Platforms is a US online social media and social networking company, formerly trading under the name Facebook, Inc. It was founded by entrepreneur and current CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and has headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The big tech giant is the parent company of one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, Facebook. Zuckerberg originally came up with the concept for Facebook in Cambridge, Massachusetts while attending Harvard University, along with four other students and official co-founders: Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Since then, Meta has become one of the “big five” technology companies in the world.