Meta Slides Toward a Quiet Decline as Facebook's Era Fades

The piece argues Meta is entering a long decline, with a first-ever dip in user numbers, strained earnings, and a costly pivot away from social feeds toward the Metaverse and AI, leaving Facebook’s experience cluttered with ads and misinformation and drawing comparisons to AOL/Yahoo as a cautionary internet-era fade—raising questions about whether Zuckerberg can reverse the trend.