Hey everybody, it's Neelite from The Vergecast.

We have a special episode today, our friend Casey Newton, editor of Platformer and contributing

editor of The Verge had a chance to sit down with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to talk

about AR, VR, and the metaverse.

It's a really deep conversation that we thought Vergecast listeners in a particular would

really enjoy, since it's about the far future of the internet.

Of course, Casey also asked Zucker about content moderation and the Biden administration pushing

Facebook on vaccine misinformation.

It's conversation, hit all the bases.

Okay, here's Casey and Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg, welcome to The Vergecast.

Thanks Casey, it's good to be here.

We've got a lot to go through.

Yeah, as always, there's a lot to discuss with you.

The White House is demanding Facebook do more to remove vaccine misinformation, which I

know is on a lot of people's minds right now.

I want to get to that, but I want to start with this talk you gave internally at Facebook

a few weeks ago, which I recently had a chance to watch.

You told your employees that your future vision of Facebook is not the two-dimensional version

of it that we're using today, but something called the metaverse.

What is a metaverse and what parts of it does Facebook plan to build?

Yeah, I mean, this is a big topic.

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