The Metaverse is Shaping to be the Fyre Festival of the Internet

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Dash The Bomber writes: Facebook, yes, that’s right, Facebook’s reach is inescapable. As a titan of social media, it’s incorporated itself into numerous aspects of our lives. From the messenger app that we use to communicate with our friends/families to our Instagram pages populated with countless selfies, it’s easy to discern its impact on society. After all, nearly every adult in the world has at one point created a profile within these apps. Some even manage their lives through them, such as influencers and scammers. Unsurprisingly, this level of popularity meant that Facebook inevitably came under fire from the media. In response, Mark Zuckerberg tried rebranding his company as Meta, but that’s not fooling anyone. Because as the adage says, you can pour some sprinkles on a turd, but that doesn’t mean you can call it a cupcake. Meta is still Facebook, and no amount of sugarcoating will ever change that fact.

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