Louise Bernard with Alexis Patri 10:38 am, October 21, 2021
According to information from our colleagues from the American media "The Verge", the Facebook group, owner of the social networks Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp, aims to change its name very quickly.
The group's objective is to reflect, in this new identity, its new projects.
Facebook is over soon.
The social network is not in danger, but the group of the same name (owner of the social networks Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp) may soon change its name.
It is the American online media
The Verge
, which publishes this information.
A name change that could take place as early as next week, in order to better reflect Facebook's new projects: create the "metaverse".
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Focus media attention on new projects
The metaverse is this fictional parallel universe in which the boss of Facebook believes a lot. The firm has also announced that it is recruiting 10,000 people over the next five years to develop new technologies that should make it possible to virtually travel, meet friends, go to a club… All without leaving home, thanks to virtual reality.
Culture Médias will
devote part of its Monday show to this metaverse project.
This new identity of the Facebook group could also have another goal: to make people forget the scandals that increasingly surround his name, mixed both with a historical breakdown, but also with the leak of internal notes, unveiled by the pitcher. alert Frances Haugen, on the role of Facebook in the dissemination of false information and in the discomfort of teenage girls.