We Know Better Than to Allow Facebook to Control the Metaverse
Bree McEwan, Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto._______ In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Met...
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In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was designed to reflect a focus beyond the Facebook social network platform, and into the metaverse — the extension of the internet into three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) spaces....
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