Mark Zuckerberg bemoaned the fact his meetings and memos kept being leaked to the press, so Meta pledged to buckle down on staff.

In a town hall, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company remains committed to diversity and free expression after unwinding DEI programs

The suit was brought after Facebook, among other social media platforms, suspended Trump's account following the Jan. 6 insurrection that attempted to overthrow the 2020 election.

Discussions about the lawsuit, which had not gotten very far since the fall of 2023, started again after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago club for a din

Microsoft MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business. Meta Platforms META.O rose 4.5% after beating estimates for fourth-quarter revenue, but forecast that first-quarter sales might miss estimates.

Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are keeping the market in check.