Facebook group to change name to Meta, announces Mark Zuckerberg

The parent company of the social network Facebook will change its name to Meta, announced Thursday, October 28, its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, during a Facebook Connect event.

Zuckerberg also unveiled the new logo: an icon reminiscent of an infinite symbol and the Oculus virtual reality glasses, which is owned by the group.

The objective is to highlight the metaverse – contraction of “meta” (“beyond”, in ancient Greek), to show that there is “Always more to build”, and “universe” – his Internet project of the future, supposed to reach a billion people. No changes have been made to the group’s structure, which notably includes Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus and Portal.

Still according to Mr. Zuckerberg, the project should create “Millions” jobs over the next decade, including 10,000 in Europe.

This announcement comes in the middle “Facebook Files” case, massive documentary revelations about how American society has ignored internal reports and warnings about the damage created by the social network around the world, especially on adolescents.

Our selection of articles on the “Facebook Files”

All our articles devoted to the “Facebook Files” are available in the dedicated section.

The algorithm out of control : “How Facebook’s algorithm escapes the control of its creators”
The limits of moderation : outside the United States, the fiasco of moderation in Arabic and, more broadly, loopholes in moderation in dozens of languages, to which is added the blind spot of automatic recommendation tools.
The difficult fight against disinformation: January 6, 2021, during the assault on the Capitol, but also during the Covid-19 pandemic, with anti-vaccination messages
User self-censorship: people with moderate convictions, on the right and on the left, no longer dare to express themselves there
Internal disarray: “At the heart of Facebook, depression and frustration in the teams responsible for making the site“ healthier ””
The portrait : “Frances Haugen, a whistleblower with a very structured approach”

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