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John Davidson

Why Meta should have been Facebook’s name from the beginning

There’s a lot to joke about in Facebook’s laughable attempt to escape its reputation as the internet’s most toxic company, by renaming itself to Meta and reshaping itself around the futuristic metaverse.

“Mark Zuckerberg has legally changed his name to Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa confirmed today,” joked The New Yorker magazine.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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