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If Kanye West can change his name, why not
?
As published today by The Verge, the company that owns the social networks
and
, the virtual reality platform
Oculus
and the messaging app
WhatsApp is
looking for a new name.
The objective, according to the leak, is not to subtract weight from all the problems that it has recently gotten into, such as an investigation in the US, several fires caused by information published by the press and the constant pressure of the regulators of the European Union.
According to the company, it is due to the need to better represent the services it offers and to focus more on the development of the 'metaverse', thus leaving the name
only to refer to the social network itself.
Officially, the company formerly known as
says that this is all rumor and speculation.
According to the source that has leaked the possible nomenclature change, everything indicates that it will be announced next week.
Facebook
and its CEO
Mark Zuckerberg appear to
have recently become obsessed with the metaverse, an expression coined by science fiction author Neal Stephenson to refer to virtual worlds controlled with an iron fist by private companies.
It is an expression that
and other
Silicon Valley
companies
use to refer to virtual worlds that are accessed using the technology they develop themselves, be it a mobile phone, a console or a virtual reality headset.
Roblox
or
Fortnite
video games
consider themselves part of the metaverse, for example.
Since
Mark Zuckerberg
plans to participate in a conference at the company's annual event called
Facebook Connect
, which is held on October 28.
Hopefully the new name will be revealed at this event.
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