Facebook Becomes Meta
Attempting to walk away from driving the catastrophe driven by social media over the last 10 years, Facebook as decided to rename itself " Meta ". Most recently, what has stuck to their corporate shoe has been making teenagers feel bad about themselves. Facebook played a key role in giving us the Trump presidency and the January 5 insurrection. It has powered the "big lie". It made anti vax insanity into a business. In countries like Sri Lanka, it powered the ethnic violence that caused thousands of deaths. Facebook has the blood of thousands on its hands, but it's in trouble over making middle-class girls feel bad. Ah well. So that wasn't "Meta". That was those other guys - "Facebook". And of course the way Zuck and friends navigate their way out of responsibility is a characteristic mix of high tech, business opportunity and denialism that would make the Tobacco executives blush. But the tech "Meta" is playing with has a direc...