Facebook can change its name to Meta Platforms or anything else, but its current leadership cannot be trusted
When you watch a magician wave his right hand in a flourish, keep an eye on his left, because that’s usually where the real action is. This lesson is certainly true of Facebook’s own recent “magical” flourishes.
First, Facebook unveiled a new name — Meta Platforms FB, -1.12% — as part of its project to build the “metaverse,” a virtual world of the sort technologists and science-fiction writers have dreamed of for decades.
When reaction to the metaverse was underwhelming, for its next trick Facebook announced plans to delete a vast stockpile of facial-recognition training data. In each case, one hand produced a shiny bauble while the other hand was still up to its old tricks of power, greed, distraction and information-based manipulation.
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