Facebook rebranding to ‘meta’ The common man did not receive a warm response from cyber experts. Eminent Whistleblower, Edward Snowden, came down heavily on Facebook posting a series of tweets to debunk the myth of the name change. “Paperwork doesn’t change the nature of something,” he wrote on Twitter to express his feelings. Mark Zuckerberg, who owns Facebook, aims to enter a new business domain of virtual reality with ‘Meta’.
Zuckerberg claimed that it would help young people explore new dimensions. Facebook is in storm around the world for its immoral involvement. The social media giant, which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, is accused of providing a platform to hate and fake news.
Edward Snowden claimed that an idea trying to depict meaningful relationships between unrelated things is being applied to Internet users around the world. This is called ‘apophenia’, a term introduced by the German psychologist Claus Conrad. “Today we understand, if not accept, the over-consumption of information online comes at the cost of excessive consumption,” Snowden wrote in his Substack post on August 21.
The famous whistleblower said, “Facebook is Facebook. Don’t write about the name, write what they do, because that’s what matters.”
Snowden, the president of the US-based Freedom of the Press, has been an outspoken critic of media moguls like Google and Facebook. Earlier, he had backed the messaging app Signal over the controversy that arose over the WhatsApp privacy issue.
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