Meta: Facebook's high-stakes bet to save itselfSocial media giant Facebook said it has taken down 67 Facebook pages, 68 Facebook accounts, 40 groups and 25 Instagram accounts for engaging in "coordinated inauthentic behavior." WASHINGTON — Facebook's name change offers a convenient diversion as scandal plagues the platform, but the new handle is also key to the firm's costly effort to save itself from very real threats, experts said. Jokes and vitriol poured in after CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new corporate handle "Meta," with critics blasting it as a transparent effort to distract from its whistleblower crisis. The metaverse Zuckerberg strolled through in Thursday's promotional pitch was a friendly place of connection and did not evoke the angry political fights or anti-vaccine misinformation that discolors social media. "Where it will fail or succeed is going to be about what they are tangibly going to change," he added.

Source: Philippine Star November 04, 2021 16:02 UTC