‘The Only Meta We Acknowledge…’: Twitter Mocks New Facebook Rebranded For Metaverse

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company's new name will be Meta, as he said they are hoping to be seen as a metaverse company over time 

The logos of Meta, which is a rebranded Facebook, and Twitter | Photos: Getty

New Delhi: Shortly after Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s big decision to change its name to Meta in a rebranding exercise, Twitter posted a message on the platform mocking the social media giant.   

“The only #META we acknowledge is this...”, the Twitter Safety handle posted along with a link to a report on the company’s META team that it has hired to build what it calls “ethical AI”.

The team is made up of some of the most notorious critics of tech.

the only #META we acknowledge is this:https://t.co/HalSMZt8L5

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 28, 2021

Twitter’s META stands for “Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability”, and the team is led by Rumman Chowdhury. 

A separate post by Twitter after Zuckerberg’s announcement is also going viral on the platform, though it doesn’t mention Facebook or Meta.  

“BIG NEWS lol jk still Twitter”, Twitter posted.

BIG NEWS lol jk still Twitter

— Twitter (@Twitter) October 28, 2021

Earlier, at his company’s Connect event Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its new name will be Meta, as he said they are hoping to be seen as a metaverse company over time. 

Zuckerberg said the name Facebook is still closely linked to its one product and doesn’t encompass everything they do now. 

“We are a company that builds technology to connect. Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology. And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.”