Meta loses 20 million users across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger: Here’s what the company is blaming for this drop

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has reported a decline in its massive user base. In an earnings call on Wednesday (via The Verge), the company revealed it lost approximately 20 million daily active users across its family of apps this quarter. The drop comes at a time for the tech giant, which is simultaneously asking investors for billions more to fund a massive pivot into Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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