ClaimsMark Zuckerberg

“There are about 200 million creators on our platforms.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO 18 April 2024 Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Factual Economics and markets

There are about 200 million creators on Meta's platforms.

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Reasoning

Creator count is an internal metric Meta does not routinely publish.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “There are about 200 million creators on Meta's platforms.” (said 18 April 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_a42d958aa964, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a42d958aa964

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