Facebook is now Meta to broaden its services with metaverse

Today, Co-founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company Facebook will rebrand the company and will be known as Meta.

All the social media platforms will keep its name. The aim of this change is to place the brand into the metaverse, which is technology that uses virtual and augmented realities to offer products and services.

Experts are concerned about the use of these technologies without a policy behind them, and say the potential new computing platform might be more invasive.

Produced By: Eduardo Jordan

Featured In Story: Dr Marcus Carter – Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney

First aired on The Wire, Friday 29 October 2021