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The shares of the American company Meta on the New York Stock Exchange fell nearly 22 percent after trading was finished on Wednesday and after posting quarterly gains with weak growth forecasts and lower net income. According to the trading platform, an hour and a half after the end of the trading session, the company's quotations on the electronic exchange NASDAQ fell by 22.35%.

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Nov. 29 he was leaving the company, after steering the social network during the tumult of Donald Trump's presidency and surviving an activist investor's ouster bid in 2020.

Facebook attaches importance to the national interests of Turkey, a country in which it operates, a senior director at the social media giant said on Nov. 4.

Like many companies in trouble before it, Facebook is changing its name and logo.

Facebook Inc. is now called Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, to reflect what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Oct. 28 is its commitment to developing the new surround-yourself technology known as the " metaverse." But the social network itself will still be called Facebook.

Facebook plans to change the company's name, according to Fox Media's The Verge blog, citing a source directly involved in the decision. There is no official confirmation. The blog claims that this will happen at the company's annual conference on October 28, when CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to speak on the issue.

The publication assumes that this may happen sooner.

U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook on Oct. 5, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children's mental health and stokes divisions.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are already working. There is no information about compromised user data after nearly six hours of application shutdown. An hour ago, the hearing of the former Facebook employee began in the US Congress, who revealed inside information and accused Zuckerberg and the company of putting profit above security.

Facebook battled dueling crises on Oct. 4 as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social network went offline for seven hours, and the company fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.

Facebook is putting a hold on the development of a kids' version of Instagram, geared toward children under 13, to address concerns that have been raised about the vulnerability of younger users.

The world's sixth longest yacht, Dilbar, which means "Beautiful girl" in the Uzbek language, has passed through the Istanbul Strait and set sail across the Black Sea on July 25.

The residents of the city witnessing the passing of the megayacht took photos of Dilbar from the shore.