in our tech lead, an age old response to bad press. don t worry about it. just change your name. ceo mark zuckerberg anounlsed today that facebook will now be known as meta. this about face book comes as the giant facing backlash over the release of hundreds of internal documents that subject facebook knew its platforms were being used to spread misinformation and incite violence. zuckerberg says facebook is making the change because of its ambitious to be known for more than just social media. and because of its growing focus on virtual reality technologies. critics have compared the move to other high profile name changes following hideous scandaling like black water
more than a third of the world s population are active users of facebook and its other social media products. no company in the world has such power and yet such little transparency. but things are changing. since friday, a consortium of news organizations in the united states has begun publishing a series of stories called the facebook papers the evidence comes from hundreds of internal company documents which have been sent to the securities and exchange commission and provided to congress, by facebook whistleblower frances haugen and her legal counsel. the evidence points directly at mark zuckerberg. time and again in these papers, company insiders say the facebook ceo chose profit over safety, compromising his own rules, with disastrous outcomes. today, ms haugen was here in the uk to give evidence