Facebook’s Meta-morphosis

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0	Be exuberant, be electrifying, be iconic.
0:03.4	In the all-electric lyric, order yours,
0:06.7	2023 lyric orders a full.
0:08.6	Go to catalytic.com and complete a pre-order for Model Year 24
0:12.0	to be among the first to order a Model Year 24 win available.
0:23.0	Facebook changed its name today.
0:24.9	It's now bookface.
0:26.8	JK, that's dumb.
0:28.3	It's bad place.
0:29.7	Okay, that's mean.
0:31.1	It's Mark's face.
0:33.2	That's just stupid.
0:33.9	Okay, it's meta.
0:35.2	Not like the name is meta.
0:36.6	Facebook's new name is meta.
0:40.2	And we'll explain why shortly.
0:41.7	But this isn't an ad for Facebook.
0:43.0	So let's first talk about the problem, shall we?
0:45.2	They are legion.
0:46.4	A few weeks ago, we brought you a story
0:48.3	about the Facebook whistleblower,
0:50.0	Francis Hougins, the name,
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