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Facebook considers changing its name in the face of recent scandals against Mark Zuckerberg
The Facebook company has been involved in numerous criticisms recently, some of them received by legislators and regulators, this in terms of its business practices, according to all this, Facebook could be coming to an end, but it would resurface with a new name.
This is how it is believed that the name that has accompanied this social network since its birth in 2004 "Facebook" could be coming to an end. This news has been revealed by a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Therefore, the company is planning to make a name change to reflect its new approach in the construction of the metaverse, which consists of a meeting space between individuals in the digital universe.
Mark Zuckerberg's plans
All these plans were unveiled in July by Facebook's own CEO (CEP), Mark Zuckerberg who revealed the following: "We will go from people seeing us as a social media company to becoming a metaverse company ".
If the entrepreneur's strategy is fulfilled, it would be something very similar to what the Google company did in 2015, when it added the word Alphabet to a higher position, placing the Google search engine as if it were others of its products. Therefore, Facebook would be going through the same and now falling short of Instagram or WhatsApp.
A well-kept secret
So far, the possible new name of the company is a closely guarded secret and until now many of the executives of the company are still unaware of it, so it is believed that said name will come to light at the time of its launch.
However, there are many rumors and suspicions, this is how it is believed that the new name of the social network could be related to "Horizon", this would be the name of the virtual reality version still unpublished on Facebook, which the company It has been developing for several years and very recently came to be called Horizon Worlds.
Despite these rumors, everything indicates that open to wait a few more days to know the name.
According to some US media, businessman Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, could be making the new name of the social network official during the company's annual Connect conference to be held on October 28.
It is believed that said announcement will be at that event in order to demonstrate the ambition of the technology giant to become known as something more than a simple social network.
The accusations against Mark Zuckerberg
This news has come during a very sensitive time for Facebook, as it is currently being heavily criticized by global regulators and lawmakers for its content moderation practices and the harms tied to its platforms.
All of this came after former Facebook employee Frances Haugen will testify during a hearing at the United States Senate Committee.
This accusation was released just days after the company announced the new controls on its platform to protect teens and children.
The former employee of the social network accuses them of hiding that it is harmful to minors, causing damage to them.
This is how Frances Haugen declared before the United States Senate that the company puts its benefits before the safety of users, so its platform is harmful to minors and encourages social division and attacks democracy.
Haugen leaked several internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal, he also revealed a very evil portrait of the company, since during the time he was working in the company he was able to learn a ruthless truth, where he assures that "Facebook hides information from governments and to the citizens".
