Why did Zuckerberg change Facebook’s name to Meta?

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Why did Zuckerberg change Facebook’s name to Meta?

Why did Zuckerberg change Facebook’s name to Meta?

BGR India

Published 29 Oct 2021

Last night at the Connect event 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to change Facebook’s name to Meta. Users must note that the name change has been for the parent company and not for any of the products served by the company, namely Instagram, Facebook app, Messenger, WhatsApp, among others. This takes us back to 2015 […]

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