Menlo Park

A 430,000-square-foot Facebook building and proposed Willow Campus made Menlo Park a recurring lens on the company’s scale, power and local footprint.

Who they are

Menlo Park appears chiefly as the Silicon Valley location anchoring Facebook’s, later Meta’s, headquarters operations and campus ambitions. Coverage also uses the city as a site for technology development beyond Facebook, including Waymo’s autonomous-vehicle R&D facility and reports that Eric Schmidt was piloting drones there.

The recent arc

The coverage’s most concentrated later period came in 2020, when Menlo Park was repeatedly tied to Facebook’s governance, product-risk and physical-expansion stories. Reporting covered a death at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, broader scrutiny of Facebook’s product-risk practices alongside Google and other companies, and a revised Willow Village proposal that cut the planned development from 1.75 million to 1.25 million square feet.