Top Meta executive said the company’s name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the ‘Facebook Papers’ revelations::Meta’s Chris Cox explained to employees the company’s rebrand succeeded in driving press coverage amid whistleblower disclosures.

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he knows we still call it facebook, right? like only propagandists call it ‘meta’.

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Of course he knows, don’t think these people are stupid. Still it limited the amount of news about the Facebook Papers by giving the press something else to write about. This post proves it even more.

And yet in the long run, they can make the name Meta stick, just by behaving like the renaming was a huge success and just ignoring everyone who calls the whole company Facebook.

If you like it or not over time Facebook will be just one of their brands, also probably not even the most attractive one.

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They don’t care whether you call it Facebook or Meta.
All they care about is that enough people were talking about the name change, so that they were distracted from the real controversy (which is the “Facebook Papers” revalations)

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All in favor of disrespecting twitters new name?

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"Only X I know is Xzibit or RBX " - Kurupt, Calling Out Names

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Woah, the disrespect for DMX!! X gonna give it to ya for that one!

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Seriously? How are you not getting the point of this article?

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Thanks for bringing this to my attention

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Ya know what? He’s not wrong. I forgot about that for a while. I hate him a more now because it worked.

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It wasn’t a success because of that. People just don’t care about the Facebook Papers and the Twitter exposes.

They either already suspected it, and this just confirms it, or they don’t give a fuck, they just want a place to post inane statuses and talk to people, because it’s social media.

Sadly they are sheep and they never will wake up.

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Not being a Facebook user and only seeing some mentions of FB/Meta in thread like this I can confirm I haven’t heard of the Facebook Papers. It rings a bell about some privacy violation stuff, but not a big one.

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