How much Meta/Facebook spends each year on defending itself (!?)

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What is discussed

AskMonty AI editorial noteSource consulted: 2026-10-08

In 2022, Montemagno comments on Mark Zuckerberg’s interview with Joe Rogan, focusing on resources devoted to protecting the network and to so-called community integrity. He is struck by the scale of the reported spending and its comparison with some countries’ defence budgets. The closing fortress analogy is rhetorical, not a measure of actual security.

Key points

• The commentary concerns people, infrastructure and platform integrity work.
• The reported spending suggests the organisation’s scale without proving how difficult it is to attack.