A crisis didn’t deter Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, from announcing the companies name change to META. Zuckerberg appears in an eerily spooky video. Reminiscent of an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror. Zuckerburg, standing in an awkward robotic pose, cynically read aloud the details of the name change from the teleprompter.
Seemingly, the name change is public relations stunt designed for the company to distance itself from the negative publicity received over the past several days, following alarming details released by a former Facebook employee. The former employee exposed documents detailing Facebook’s secret internal research Facebook conducted. The documents suggest Facebook was fully aware of the real-world harm its application was causing.