Facebook is going to change its name, report claims
The IndependentSign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The social media company’s rebranding, according to a report from The Verge, would put the Facebook app under the same umbrella as WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as Oculus and other services that Facebook owns. “This is a world where the device itself disappears entirely into the ebb and flow of everyday life.” Facebook’s chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is expected to discuss the plans to change the name at the company’s annual Connect conference on 28 October, but the announcement could be made sooner. In July this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook would “effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company”. Facebook only recently announced that it would be hiring 10,000 workers in Europe to build this vision, and its roots may not remove it from the dystopian criticisms that the social media company has garnered as it bought or pushed out competing companies since it was started in 2004.