What is metaverse? Imagine an internet where you can be idle with your environment and play games as if you were in it. This is possible using the metaverse. It's an interactive online space that you can access using a VR headset. This video explains the Metaverse, along with the meaning of Metaverse and why Metaverse matters? Discover the different ways the metaverse makes our lives better and understand this emerging technology in depth.

Facebook will spread Meta hatred and disinformation under new name. The name Meta is derived from metaverse, a term derived from Neal Stephenson's dystopian science fiction book Snow Crash (1992). In the book, people move through avatars within a three-dimensional virtual world. Zuckerberg also wants to develop such a world, where virtual reality users can also use games and media and shop in addition to the social network.

Apart from the name of the parent company, the question is whether anything else changes within the company. Facebook has faced a lot of heavy criticism again in recent times, this time as a whistleblower revealed, among other things, that the company leaves more than 95 percent of all hateful messages. Also, Facebook wouldn't address coronavirus misinformation enough because it feared to miss out on ad revenue. This week, an internal document from the company, known to the heart of the social network, stimulates the spread of disinformation and drives polarization. It also became clear that Facebook is reluctant to limit the influence of far-right news media. Facebook internally acknowledges that it drives polarization and disinformation

Facebook sees a big future for metaverse. You can try this virtual universe with the Horizon Workrooms app: Meeting in VR. How does it work? What does Facebook want with it? And is this more convenient than whatsapp, Teams, or Zoom video calling?

HOW FACEBOOK LEAVES MUCH OF THE WORLD TO ITS FATE
The most vulnerable countries have the least secure version of Facebook. Those who use Facebook outside North America and Europe sometimes find themselves in the Wild West. Internal documents that a consortium of European publications, including Knack, was able to look into, show that the company is powerless across many parts of the world against hate messages and threats.

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