{"id":3497,"date":"2021-10-29T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/grave-error-facebooks-new-name-meta-means-dead-in-hebrew\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T18:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:36:05","slug":"grave-error-facebooks-new-name-meta-means-dead-in-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/grave-error-facebooks-new-name-meta-means-dead-in-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Grave error? Facebook\u2019s new name Meta means dead in Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebrand mocked under hashtag #FacebookDead while Canadian firm\u2019s shares get unexpected boost<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s name change<\/a> has been roundly mocked on social media, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Israel: Meta sounds like the Hebrew word for \u201cdead\u201d.<\/p>\n

As images of Facebook\u2019s name superimposed on a tombstone were shared online, Dr Nirit Weiss-Blatt, a tech expert, wrote in a tweet directed towards Facebook\u2019s communications team<\/a>: \u201cIn Hebrew, *Meta* means *Dead*.\u201d The author of The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication <\/em>added: \u201cThe Jewish community will ridicule this name for years to come.\u201d Meta sounds like the feminine form of the Hebrew word.<\/p>\n

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\nRebrand mocked under hashtag #FacebookDead while Canadian firm\u2019s shares get unexpected boost
\nFacebook\u2019s name change has been roundly mocked on social media, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Israel: Meta sounds like the Hebrew word for \u201cdead\u201d.
\nAs images of Facebook\u2019s name superimposed on a tombstone were shared online, Dr Nirit Weiss-Blatt, a tech expert, wrote in a tweet directed towards Facebook\u2019s communications team: \u201cIn Hebrew, *Meta* means *Dead*.\u201d The author of The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication added: \u201cThe Jewish community will ridicule this name for years to come.\u201d Meta sounds like the feminine form of the Hebrew word. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebrand mocked under hashtag #FacebookDead while Canadian firm\u2019s shares get unexpected boost Facebook\u2019s name change has been roundly mocked on social media, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Israel: Meta sounds like the Hebrew word for \u201cdead\u201d. As images of Facebook\u2019s name superimposed on a tombstone were shared online, Dr Nirit Weiss-Blatt, a tech …<\/p>\n

Grave error? Facebook\u2019s new name Meta means dead in Hebrew<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3498,"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\/3497"}],"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=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}