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Investors in Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB), formerly Facebook, are having a tough time lately. After reaching its all-time high just a few months ago, Meta's share price fell more than 45% to $208 (as of this writing). Slower revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2021 and weak guidance for the first quarter of 2022 drove the sell-off...

Neal Stephenson coined the term "metaverse" in his novel Snow Crash three decades ago, but it reemerged as a hot buzzword over the past year as virtual reality, augmented reality, and digital asset platforms blended together and blurred the barriers between the physical and digital worlds. Today I'll review three promising metaverse stocks -- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB), Unity Software (NYSE: U), and Roblox (NYSE: RBLX) -- and explain why they could still be compelling investments in this challenging environment for higher-growth tech stocks...

Technology-wise, TikTok, and Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP) continue to create intriguing products and tools to grow their users. In this video clip from "The Virtual Opportunities Show" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on April 12, Fool.com contributors Travis Hoium, Demitri Kalogeropoulos, and Jose Najarro look at some recent augmented reality developments that will be worth watching in the future...

In October, The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster investigation of Facebook's troubling internal practices, based in large part on.....

Content moderation at social media platforms is now done almost entirely in the dark, Susan Benesch writes. Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is an opportunity change that...

The social media advertising market has been controlled by just two players for some time. Getting your ad in front of as many eyeballs as possible is the name of the game, and no companies have more eyes on them than Meta Platforms , formerly Facebook, and Google parent company Alphabet . If you add Amazon into the mix, 74% of the global digital ad spend (not just on social media) was controlled by less than a handful of companies in 2021, according to Digiday...

The study adapted the Facebook Addiction Scale, which measures the six core elements of addiction to the social media giant...