B
Evidence Grade B
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2.3%
2.3% -- forecast beat pp for Meta (Q1 2026)
Meta's reported growth beat WARC Media's benchmark expectations by 2.3 percentage points in Q1 2026.
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Value
2.3%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
Q1 2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
WARC Media
Primary
Tier A
https://besteverad.com/meta-defies-gravity-open-web-is-moribund-versus-q1-2026-benchmarks/ ↗
Source Article
Meta defies gravity, open web is moribund versus Q1 2026 benchmarks
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WARC Media
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Methodology
WARC Media neural network of over two million data points
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Industrymarketing
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Meta: 2.3% forecast beat pp. Source: WARC Media (Q1 2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/meta-beat-forecast-q1-2026
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