Meta Platforms is starting to test ads on Threads for a handful of brands in the U.S. and Japan, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Friday. “We’ll be closely monitoring this test before scaling it more broadly,

Facebook parent Meta has begun testing ads on its newest social network Threads, an executive announced Friday, as the company continues to grow its alternative to Elon Musk's X.

Meta Platforms plans to invest up to $65 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 to expand efforts related to data centers and artificial intelligence. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the social-media company will build a 2-gigawatt-plus data center and will end the year with more than 1.