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Meta’s daily user count just dropped for the first time ever

Ellsworth Toohey
May 08, 2026
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Daily active users across Meta’s properties slipped from 3.58 billion to 3.56 billion last quarter, the first decline the company has ever reported. Julia Angwin, writing in a New York Times opinion piece, says Meta has caught the same stink that AOL did in 2003 and that Y…

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