Meta jokes, Facebook criticism take over Twitter after name change

Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday introduced that Fb the corporate (however not Fb the social media platform) shall be renamed Meta, and the corporate’s critics have been fast to mock its newest transfer.

Zuckerberg stated the identify change will permit the social media big to replicate its concentrate on the metaverse and its growth into digital areas the place customers work together with digital avatars. The corporate’s standard Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms will preserve their present names and can function beneath the renamed Meta firm.

“Our model is so tightly linked to 1 product that it will possibly’t probably characterize all the pieces we’re doing as we speak, not to mention the longer term,” stated Zuckerberg on the firm’s annual Join convention.  

Quickly, Meta grew to become a trending subject on Twitter, an irony famous by some critics: “Each time we make enjoyable of Fb on Twitter it feels very Meta,” tweeted Steven Spohn.

A lot of the response on Twitter was vital of the identify: “It is referred to as Meta as a result of we have by no means Meta worse concept. BOOM bought ’em,” tweeted John Epler.

Some lawmakers, journalists, fellow manufacturers and others have been fast to jab the brand new identify. Many cited longtime criticisms of the platform and its crises, together with a cache of paperwork leaked by former product supervisor Frances Haugen. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, shared that the corporate is altering its identify to “Meta as in ‘we’re a most cancers to democracy metastasizing into a worldwide surveillance and propaganda machine for reinforcing authoritarian regimes and destroying civil society… for revenue!’”  

Others on Twitter additionally focused Fb over the transfer.  

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The fast-food chain Wendy’s on Twitter modified their identify merely to “meat.”

Twitter’s official Twitter account joked that they’ve “BIG NEWS.”  

“lol jk nonetheless twitter,” they added.  

And Hulu took to Twitter to guarantee viewers that “we’re nonetheless Hulu.”  

Zuckerberg instructed The Verge that Fb’s current unfavorable information cycle “had nothing to bear on this.” 

“Despite the fact that I believe some individuals would possibly need to make that connection, I believe that’s type of a ridiculous factor,” he stated. “If something, I believe that this isn’t the atmosphere that you’d need to introduce a brand new model in.”