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Re:Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Weave a Fiber-Optic We... by zo1 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:52PM (#29948529)
They use this phrasing in the article text:

"four tech giants— Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Meta (formerly Facebook ) and Amazon"

So I guess the distinction in their eyes is that Facebook renamed itself whilst Google sold itself to a parent company? Can someone chime in on the legal entities and mechanics used for the two?

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Re:Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Weave a Fiber-Optic We... by tomklein on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:03PM (#29949168)
Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Don’t know about Facebook/Meta though
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Re:Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Weave a Fiber-Optic We... by MertsA on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:25PM (#29950435)
Facebook was a straight rename to Meta, no parent company or anything.
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