{"id":1044855,"date":"2026-10-22T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044855"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T05:53:43","slug":"metas-q3-profits-dip-nearly-50-after-18-billion-legal-settlement-even-as-company-beats-revenue-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/22\/metas-q3-profits-dip-nearly-50-after-18-billion-legal-settlement-even-as-company-beats-revenue-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s Q3 profits dip nearly 50% after $18 billion legal settlement even as company beats revenue estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta beat investor expectations for third-quarter revenue in 2026, but its profits took a hit from billions of dollars in legal costs. The Facebook and Instagram owner is facing major penalties in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue beats expectations, profit takes a hit<br \/>\nAs per AFP, Meta beat investor expectations for third-quarter revenue on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta beat investor expectations for third-quarter revenue in 2026, but its profits took a hit from billions of dollars in legal costs. The Facebook and Instagram owner is facing major penalties in the US. Revenue beats expectations, profit takes a hit As per AFP, Meta beat investor expectations for third-quarter revenue on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044857,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044855\/revisions\/1044857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}