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Friday 23 October 2026
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Meta beat revenue estimates and raised the bottom of its 2026 capital spending range to $135 billion. It also announced a new class of non-voting shares and an arrangement with Mark Zuckerberg linked to a proposed California wealth tax.
Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer, will stay through the US midterm elections and into 2027 for a transition; Dina Powell McCormick will add external affairs to her role.
A Meta spokesman said an automated system disabled the account during the coalition's nationwide 'Vote Early' events on Saturday and apologised. Organisers said they were locked out for about four hours.
About 70 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to release quarterly results this week. Here are the confirmed dates and times, in GMT.
After criticism, Meta deleted a clause from its commercial terms and said it does not change how its web crawlers work.
