Facebook rebrands as Meta to emphasize ‘metaverse’ vision
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future.
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By: The Associated Press & Scripps National
Posted at 1:28 PM, Oct 28, 2021
and past updated 2021-10-28 14:44:28-04
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that his institution volition rebrand itself arsenic Meta arsenic it focuses connected its virtual-reality imaginativeness for the future.
It doesn’t look the alteration volition impact consumers much. The company’s firm sanction volition beryllium Meta, portion its flagship societal networking tract volition support the Facebook name, The Washington Post reports. That’s akin to however Google’s genitor institution sanction is Alphabet.
Experts constituent retired that it besides appears to beryllium an effort to alteration the taxable from the Facebook Papers, a papers trove that has revealed the ways Facebook ignored interior reports and warnings of the harms its societal web created oregon magnified crossed the world.
This communicative is breaking and volition beryllium updated.
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