Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wants to reinvent Facebook. He has been telling analysts and journalists that he wants the company to lead the way to a completely different Internet.
He said: "In the coming years, I expect people will transition from seeing us primarily as a social media company to seeing us as a metaverse company… In many ways the metaverse is the ultimate expression of social technology."
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