Facebook’s yearly revenue growth slowed by about 10 percentage points in 2019, while expenses roughly doubled during the same timeframe to $46.7 billion, shrinking its operating margin by 11% for the full year. Facebook had flagged the expense increase months ago—warning it was caused by ballooning investments in areas like security, marketing, and consumer hardware. But despite its efforts to...
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