They also came under fire for sparking genocide in Myanmar.
People keep forgetting all of this which goes to show how quick/easy it is to wash your hands of rep issues with a new company name, especially if people think they’re superior/laughing at you.
It wasn’t until this year I found out him & his wife’s foundation bought a company called Meta years ago. And then shut it down a couple years back…. Then renamed Facebook meta 😆
The absolute funniest part of that for me is that I called the name change like 3 months before it was announced because zuck would not shut up about the metaverse.
I will give them credit that getting to call your account a "Meta" account that then applies to all the other massive platforms they buy was pretty clever.
Like a tongue in cheek admission that they are nothing but an account aggregation platform...but do VR stuff also.
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Most importantly, they wanted to distance themselves from the Cambridge Analytica scandal & the instances they fucked w democracy in other countries.
People keep forgetting all of this which goes to show how quick/easy it is to wash your hands of rep issues with a new company name, especially if people think they’re superior/laughing at you.
Like a tongue in cheek admission that they are nothing but an account aggregation platform...but do VR stuff also.