Facebook wants you to know it makes Instagram and WhatsApp, so it's changing its corporate logo to make that clear

There's Facebook, the social-media network used by billions of people around the world, and then there's Facebook, the corporate parent of several major social-media and tech organizations.

Which is all to say one thing: The logo you see above is solely meant to represent the corporate parent of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram .

Facebook earlier this year started explicitly noting its ownership of services like Instagram and WhatsApp in a bid to be more transparent with people who might not be aware of which tech companies own what services.

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