Facebook Plans To Change It's Name Soon
I mean it is associated with censorship and Liberal bias, so I can see why. But they are actually referring to their company name. The social media platform and app will likely stay the same, Zuckerberg is just changing the main company name because he is looking to branch out.
"Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more.
Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July, he told The Verge that, over the next several years, “we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”
"A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today.
"Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling."
The name change could also be that he is trying to distance himself too. The social media platform does suppress conservatives and treats conservative perspectives as hate speech or factually incorrect. So maybe we will get lucky and Zuckerberg will be forced to sell off Facebook to someone that actually believes in free speech.