Tag: Social & Online Media
What even is the metaverse?
For most of this year, Facebook has been talking about its plans for the metaverse, pledging to lose a lot of money in order to bolster its ambitions in the space. Yesterday, the company announced that it would rebrand its corporate identity to “Meta” in order to double down on…
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The Morning After: Facebook is now called Meta
While Facebook the social network is still Facebook, the overarching company that it created is now called Meta. Facebook Inc. is changing its name in order to distinguish its myriad parts from the social network, which has an increasingly poor reputation pretty much everywhere. Particularly in the last few weeks.…
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Facebook is rebranding itself as ‘Meta’
Facebook, the social network, will no longer define the future of Facebook, the company that will now be known as Meta. Facebook Inc. is changing the name in order to distinguish its beleaguered social network, which has an increasingly poor reputation around the globe, from the company that is pinning…
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Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it
Here's what Facebook's metaverse isn't: It's not an alternative world to help us escape from our dystopian reality, a la Snow Crash. It won't require VR or AR glasses (at least, not at first). And, most importantly, it's not something Facebook wants to keep to itself. Instead, as Mark Zuckerberg…
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Facebook will punish rule breakers by down-ranking their posts in groups
Facebook is taking new steps to crack down on groups users who break its rules, even when they have done so in other parts of the app. Under the new policy, Facebook will downrank content posted in groups by users who have broken its rules even if they have done…
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Instagram is testing in-app notifications for service outages
One week after a massive Facebook outage that took all of the social network’s apps offline for more than six hours, Instagram says it’s testing notifications that will alert users to “temporary issues” like outages or other technical issues. The new alerts would appear in users’ Activity Feed, alongside other…
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