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Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Is it true that Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp?

Yes. Multiple reference and peer-reviewed sources state that Meta (formerly Facebook) owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and one encyclopedia entry notes Facebook purchased Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.

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Facebook
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Facebook. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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Dilemmas Between Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech: Russophobia on Facebook and Instagram in the Spanish Media
2023
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Dilemmas Between Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech: Russophobia on Facebook and Instagram in the Spanish Media. (2023). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i2.6330

Norwegian DPA Blocks Personalised Advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Urgency Procedure: Another Step towards a Departure from Meta's Business Model?
2023
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Norwegian DPA Blocks Personalised Advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Urgency Procedure: Another Step towards a Departure from Meta's Business Model?. (2023). orbilu.uni.lu. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/58240

One Social Media Company to Rule Them All: Associations Between Use of Facebook-Owned Social Media Platforms, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and the Big Five Personality Traits
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One Social Media Company to Rule Them All: Associations Between Use of Facebook-Owned Social Media Platforms, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and the Big Five Personality Traits. (n.d.). frontiersin.org. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00936/pdf

Simple English Wikipedia: 2021 Facebook outage
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Simple English Wikipedia: 2021 Facebook outage. (n.d.). simple.wikipedia.org. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage

Meta Platforms - Wikipedia
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Meta Platforms - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms

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