The company "Facebook", which is the giant of social networking sites in the world, announced, Thursday, changing its name to "Meta".
The American company chose the new name in line with its policy to create an integrated virtual world based on 3D technology known as the Metaverse.
The famous company revealed its new name in a video message to its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which was broadcast on social media.
The word (metaverse) combines the words "meta" and "universe" in English, meaning "the superuniverse" and constitutes a kind of digital alternative to the physical world that can be accessed via the Internet.
Metaverse technology is supposed to make it possible to increase human interactions online by freeing them from physical constraints thanks to virtual and augmented reality technologies.
The new name comes after a scandal involving the company in early October, after Frances Hogan, a former official in the site's civil integrity team, revealed that Facebook had committed a number of violations, including fueling ethnic violence in Ethiopia and Myanmar, and indicated the site's silence about practices committed by celebrities and public figures under the terms of the law. What I called the "whitelist".
It is noteworthy that Facebook is not the first well-known technology company to change its name as its ambitions expand.
In 2015, Google completely reorganized itself under a holding company called Alphabet.
With this move, she wanted to indicate that it was no longer just a search engine, but a sprawling group of companies that manufacture driverless cars and health technologies.
Snapchat rebranded Snap in 2016, the same year it started calling itself the camera company and introduced its first Spectacles.