Zuckerberg controls the majority of the voting power at Meta.

Judge as of 2025-01-10. True: Meta's SEC filings (the proxy statement or 10-K closest to January 2025) show Zuckerberg held or controlled more than 50% of the combined voting power of Meta's outstanding stock, counting Class B shares and voting proxies. Mostly true: he controlled a majority but with a minor detail off (for example the majority depends on proxy agreements as well as shares he owns outright). Mostly false: he held a large voting stake just under 50%, so the majority claim overstates real control. False: filings show his voting power was well below 50%.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 2024 annual reporting - SEC.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Meta Platforms, Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal 2024)

   “Holders of our Class B common stock, including our founder, Chairman, and CEO, together hold a majority of the combined voting power of our outstanding capital stock, and therefore are able to control the outcome of all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval”

2. E2 2024 annual reporting - SEC.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Meta Platforms, Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal 2024)

   “If, for example, Mr. Zuckerberg retains a significant portion of his holdings of Class B common stock for an extended period of time, he could, in the future, continue to control a majority of the combined voting power of our outstanding capital stock.”

3. E3 2024 annual reporting - SEC.gov U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Meta Platforms, Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal 2024)

   “On January 24, 2025, the registrant had 2,189,898,148 shares of Class A common stock and 343,761,117 shares of Class B common stock outstanding.”

4. E4 The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok The Conversation · 8 April 2025

   “Zuckerberg reportedly owns just 13.5% of the company's equity, but because he owns 99.7% of the supervoting shares, he controls 61% of the company's votes.”

Meta's fiscal-2024 10-K says Class B holders, including Zuckerberg, hold a majority of the combined voting power (E1). It also says he "could... continue to control a majority" of that voting power, which means he controlled it at the time (E2). The filing gives share counts as of January 24, 2025 (E3), and The Conversation reports that Zuckerberg holds 99.7% of the supervoting shares and controls 61% of the votes (E4). Together these show he held well over 50% of the voting power around January 2025.