Facebook renames itself ‘Meta’

The Facebook company, not the social network, will now be known as Meta.

After about a week of speculation, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, Oculus and WhatsApp is now Meta.

The plan is to move the company’s branding furth away from the Facebook social network as it moves more into building the VR metaverse and other new tech projects. If you go Meta.com it redirects you to a Facebook site that explains the new VR space and what Zuckerberg is trying to create. This involves both VR and AR and so much more to really build out a digital world that is still intertwined with the real world in subtle ways.

While this all sounds crazy and futuristic, that’s because it is and a lot of it is a long way off according to Zuckerberg.

This also follows recent allegations that Facebook and Instagram are bad for people, especially younger girls and a push from U.S. government regulators to break the company up.

Source: Meta