{"id":3481,"date":"2021-10-29T03:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/mocking-meta-facebooks-virtual-reality-name-change-prompts-backlash\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:44:43","slug":"mocking-meta-facebooks-virtual-reality-name-change-prompts-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/mocking-meta-facebooks-virtual-reality-name-change-prompts-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mocking Meta: Facebook\u2019s virtual reality name change prompts backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rebrand comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by Facebook CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> that the social media giant will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/28\/facebook-name-change-rebrand-meta\">change the name of its holding company to Meta<\/a> in a virtual-reality rebrand has prompted dismay and bemusement.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Zuckerberg said Meta<strong> <\/strong>would encompass Facebook as well as apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and the virtual reality brand Oculus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/29\/mocking-meta-facebooks-virtual-reality-name-change-prompts-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b90b11b0c28202abd7a67eafc55ab4fd82633e6\/0_0_3761_2258\/master\/3761.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e51057c00b20eb7f8183194e647fbdab\" title=\"Mocking Meta: Facebook\u2019s virtual reality name change prompts backlash\" \/>The rebrand comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises<br \/>\nThe announcement by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta in a virtual-reality rebrand has prompted dismay and bemusement.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, Zuckerberg said Meta would encompass Facebook as well as apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and the virtual reality brand Oculus. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rebrand comes as the company faces a series of public relations crises The announcement by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta in a virtual-reality rebrand has prompted dismay and bemusement. On Thursday, Zuckerberg said Meta would encompass Facebook as well as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/mocking-meta-facebooks-virtual-reality-name-change-prompts-backlash\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mocking Meta: Facebook\u2019s virtual reality name change prompts backlash<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}