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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: We're watching shares of matap platforms down ten percent after

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Speaker 2: the company reported revenue that came in above estimates thirty

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Speaker 2: six point four to six billion versus estimates of thirty

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Speaker 2: six point one two billion. The concern, it looks like Carol,

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Speaker 2: that investors have is all about that guidance. Second quarter

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Speaker 2: revenue expected to come between thirty six point five and

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Speaker 2: thirty nine billion, whereas estimates were for thirty eight point

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Speaker 2: two four billion dollars. This is essentially the second quarter

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Speaker 2: sales forecast lagging at least at the midpoint. But we're

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Speaker 2: seeing a kind of an outsize reaction in the after hours.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of interesting. We're going to need some

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of color around these numbers and also

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Speaker 1: this you know, increase in expenses potentially and spending. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to it with our Bloomberg News contributor John Erlickman,

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Speaker 1: who follows the tech sector and has for a long time.

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Speaker 1: John joining us from Toronto. John, the stock is sinking

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Speaker 1: in the aftermarket. I mean, it's had quite a run

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Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty four. But again, shares of Meta

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Speaker 1: down about ten percent, what jumps out for you and

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Speaker 1: why do you think maybe investors are so disappointed? Is

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Speaker 1: it all about that outlook?

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Speaker 3: I think Carol, at the end of the day, you

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Speaker 3: and Tim have outlined all the considerations that are playing

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Speaker 3: into the stock decline. Let's certainly wait for some details

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Speaker 3: on the conference call later on how the AI roadmap

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Speaker 3: is playing out. But I think the context here is

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Speaker 3: very important. So you were talking about the run up

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Speaker 3: in the stock last year and the continued rally this year.

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Speaker 3: It's easily outpacing all the digital ad players because not

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Speaker 3: only did they prove to Wall Street that they can

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Speaker 3: deliver we saw that in the previous quarter, but also

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Speaker 3: that they have been seen as one of the earliest

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Speaker 3: big winners in big tech around AI. You could argue

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Speaker 3: it's Microsoft and Meta that have shown the strongest ability

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Speaker 3: to implement implement generative AI, work it into the system.

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Speaker 3: So Tim was first to talk about the revenue number

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Speaker 3: for the current quarter possibly ending up being a little

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Speaker 3: light versus expectations, although in theory, based on the guidance

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Speaker 3: You highlighted the expenses. I think the fact that they

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Speaker 3: That's going to have to be a decision that investors make,

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Speaker 3: because when this stock lost basically two thirds of its

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Speaker 3: value in twenty twenty two, people were concerned about spending

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Speaker 3: Street these days thinks that it is worthwhile to spend

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Speaker 3: spend if it will mean bigger returns. You did see

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Speaker 3: the revenue number for the current quarter pretty strong. This

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Speaker 3: let the math fall. The simplest part of this story

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Speaker 3: is that expectations were high. The stock had rallied a lot,

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Speaker 3: completely different story than Tesla yesterday. And let's see if

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Speaker 3: they give us more details on the AI.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: bring in also, Man Deep saying Bloomberg Intelligence senior tech

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Speaker 2: Man deep the stock down about nine point six percent

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Speaker 2: right now. You set up the call in the print

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Speaker 2: in a great way for us earlier on the program.

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Speaker 2: Your reaction to the numbers.

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Speaker 4: The focus is more on the spending and the guide

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Speaker 4: Whenever this company talks about spending more, I think the

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Speaker 2: I heard that somewhere you got to spend money to

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Speaker 4: Well, so I think in their case, the fact that

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Speaker 4: If they had said, Okay, if we are raising our

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Speaker 1: What's the question you would ask.

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Speaker 4: How do you plan to monetize generative AI beyond the

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Speaker 4: you go beyond monetizing Jenny I separately, because Meta does

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Speaker 2: John Relick, when I see you nodding here when Mandeep

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Speaker 2: is talking about Meta's engagement problem, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 3: That happens to pull yourself out. Pull yourself out, Tim

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Speaker 3: if you can't look. Mandeep has done some of the

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Speaker 3: actually we'll have a better conversation once Alphabet reports its results,

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Speaker 3: because it was Mandy who said to me, if they

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Speaker 3: for Mark Zuckerberg, when the table stakes seems so high

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Speaker 4: And I would just have one more thing. If they

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Speaker 4: really wanted to fund the GENI initiatives, they could have

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Speaker 4: said we are curtailing a reality lab spend. In the print,

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Speaker 4: it's very obvious he wants to keep spending on reality labs.

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Speaker 4: There is no pullback on that front.

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Speaker 4: They're not and they want to increase spending on AI,

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Speaker 1: Question we learned how well that worked?

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Speaker 4: Right? Well?

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Speaker 2: John, I mean there's a difference between investing in AI

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Speaker 3: Very true, very true. But I would say that if

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Speaker 3: Mark Zuckerberg has already been very willing to make comments

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Speaker 1: What's interesting is and we're continuing to see Meta down

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Speaker 4: I think so, And to an extent, you know, it

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Speaker 2: Always MINDI is the panic warranted.

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Speaker 4: Look, I think with the kind of churn you have

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Speaker 4: seen with Meta shareholder base. I mean, remember when they

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Speaker 2: And I thought this was a twenty year turnaround story.

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Speaker 4: And now they have new shareholders, which who may not

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Speaker 4: careful in terms of setting expectations. I think last quarter

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Speaker 4: announcing a dividend. Yeah, and they haven't really talked about

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Speaker 1: That's a really good point. The other thing I want

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Speaker 1: Looking at our live blog, Alex Barinka noting that the

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Speaker 1: total number of people using Meta's apps, so we're talking Facebook, Instagram, Whatsappen, threads,

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Speaker 1: rising seven percent year overy year to three point twenty

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Speaker 1: four billion. I mean, again, when we think about social media,

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Speaker 1: these guys really kind of just.

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Speaker 2: There's Meta and there's everyone else exactly.

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Speaker 1: And so as you know, men Deep was talking earlier like,

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Speaker 1: if you're going to do an ad spend, this is

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Speaker 1: kind of probably where you're going to go because this

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Speaker 1: is where you get the payoff. But I mean there's

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Speaker 1: value in that. I mean just putting aside the AD

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Speaker 1: spend and stuff that the AdSpend, the marketing spend, the

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Speaker 1: CAPEC spend, if you will, I mean that is incredible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think we have had to relearn how

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Speaker 3: to evaluate these companies. Meta doesn't get as specific with

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Speaker 3: individual platform numbers as they used to. Apple doesn't tell

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Speaker 3: us about the number of iPhones they're selling quarter to quarter.

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Speaker 3: Netflix just told us they're not going to tell us

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Speaker 3: how many subscribers they have in the future, right, which

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Speaker 3: means we're talking now about the power of the platform,

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Speaker 3: and you are appssolutely right, Carol. The advertising ecosystem around

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Speaker 3: the meta properties is extremely robust, and they have proven

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Speaker 3: to us that that is hard to break. I do

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Speaker 3: have to go back to what Tim said, though, I'm

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Speaker 3: still always curious about where the trends are taking us.

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Speaker 3: It's been a busy day on the TikTok front as well.

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Speaker 3: Without a doubt, if you're Mark Zuckerberg, you are concerned

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Speaker 3: about the levels of engagement just in the pure traditional

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Speaker 3: social media way of having the hot hand and Instagram

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Speaker 3: is getting a bit older. Facebook certainly is already there,

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Speaker 3: but breaking that model that they've built is hard to do.

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Speaker 3: And maybe that's, you know, if you've got some competition

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Speaker 3: on other social media platforms. Maybe that explains to what

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Speaker 3: Mandy was talking about earlier, why you need to continue

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Speaker 3: to put all that money into the metaverse in reality

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Speaker 3: labs part while you're also spending on AI to make

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Speaker 3: a more robust platform for your traditional social media channels.

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Speaker 2: Aman Deef, I want to give you the last word

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Speaker 2: here as you go and get ready to write your reports.

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Speaker 1: The headline on that report.

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Speaker 2: Reports reports plural later today. I know it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a late night for you. What are you thinking.

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Speaker 4: Cost discipline going away from meta question mark because you know,

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Speaker 4: to me, there's no doubt this company has a scale

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Speaker 4: and it's a juggernaut when it comes to digital ads.

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Speaker 4: It's just kind of setting the right expectations and sticking

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Speaker 4: to that. And we know Mark Zuckerberg can change and

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Speaker 4: he can execute like no one else. It's a very

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Speaker 4: nimble product team. But when it comes to managing investory expectations,

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Speaker 4: it's a different ballgame. And they've shown they can be

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Speaker 4: loosed when it comes to the capital allocation side.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, I'm just telling you. You're on the live blog.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah? Did you do that?

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. It sounds like they're taken from our conversation

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Speaker 2: for the live blog. Everyone check out the live blog.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like Zuckerberg needs to put a suit back on

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Speaker 1: and take off the rancher coat and silver.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's maybe well. Shares down now, Shares down

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Speaker 2: now twelve points seventy percent and up in going into

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Speaker 2: the print close to forty percent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so pretty much at its lows. Guys, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Ben Deep saying we always appreciate it, senior

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Speaker 1: tech industrial analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence, and our thanks to

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Speaker 1: John Erlichman as well. Always great in terms of his

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Speaker 1: insights on this group. He's been following it for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Bloomberg News contributor out There in Toronto shares

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Speaker 1: a Meta down almost thirteen percent.