Zuckerberg announces new company name to Facebook

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg announced the name change of Facebook. It will now be called Meta.

The company Facebook, which owns the social network of the same name, as well as Instagram and WhatsApp, will change its name, announced the founder of the company, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. It will now be called Meta. Zuckerberg announced this during the Connect conference, its broadcast is available on the YouTube channel Reuters.

Zuckerberg also revealed the company's new logo, which looks like a slightly curved infinity sign. The company has also launched a new website.

The Verge announced on October 20 that the company is going to change its name, citing a source familiar with the situation. Mark Zuckerberg could not decide on a new brand for a long time: last week the final decision was not made, said journalist Casey Newton, author of the Platformer mailing list.

According to Zuckerberg, virtual space is the future of the Internet, in which a person will not only look at content, but literally be present in it.