3 years, 5 months ago

Facebook can build its metaverse – I won’t be part of it

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy After weeks of rumours, two months after it announced its vision for the future, and several days’ worth of bruising testimony by whistleblower Frances Haugen about the pernicious effect Facebook has on our society and our lives, the social media giant has news for us: it’s renaming to Meta. It may well be: Meta’s suite of apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, serve 3 billion people worldwide. I’ve spent enough time in a similar virtual universe, the video game Second Life, to know that this bold new future world has been predicted before, and nothing came of it. The last few weeks – and in fact, the last few years, since the 2018 revelations about the use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica – have demonstrated to me that Mark Zuckerberg’s company is unwilling to put people before profit.

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