Facebook addresses its tarnished image with Meta rebrand

The company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is now called Meta, ostensibly to signal a pivot towards AR and VR.
The artist formerly known as Facebook has been banging on about the ‘metaverse’ for a while now. It seems to describe a dystopia in which all our external interactions are informed by some kind of digital overlay that will somehow improve reality. The most acute among you may already be forming a suspicion about which company will provide, manage and monetise thi