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The cat’s (officially) out of the bag
By Andrew Bosworth (Boz), Facebook/Meta Well the cat’s (officially) out of the bag: Our company is now Meta to better reflect who we are and our ambitions to help build the metaverse. Our org will become Reality Labs and our work is a key part of that future. We’re focused…
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Introducing Meta
By Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook/Meta FOUNDER’S LETTER, 2021 We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it’s the next chapter for our company too. In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally. When I started Facebook, we mostly…
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Billions of people use our services because we build the best tools
By Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook There’s a lot going on right now, and I just discussed it in our earnings call. I also talked about some of the new stuff we’re building. Here’s what I said: Hey everyone and thanks for joining today. We made good progress this quarter across a…
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It’s frustrating to see the good work we do get mischaracterized
By Mark Zuckerberg I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. Hey everyone: it’s been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you. First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we’ve had…
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The governments of the world should start acting against the Apple-Google duopoly in the smartphone market
By Pavel Durov, Telegram The phones of 50,000 individuals, including human rights activists and journalists, have been targeted by surveillance tools that were used by numerous governments. These tools can hack any iOS and Android phone, and there is no way to protect your device from it. It doesn’t matter…
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This is not the new normal
By Greta Thunberg Deadly heatwaves, floods, storms, wildfires, droughts, crop failures…This is not “the new normal”.We’re at the very beginning of a climate and ecological emergency, and extreme weather events will only become more and more frequent. After the catastrophic recent developments – especially in Western Europe – everyone seems…
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We can and will do better
By Priscilla Zhan I am trying to name my emotions right now. Relief that there may be justice for George Floyd and his family. Heaviness from the reality that justice often comes too late and is far from universal. Faith that we can and will do better. My hope is…
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Autism is not a disease
By Greta Thunberg Today is #AutismAwarenessDay. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with Asperger, a form of autism. At that time I had no idea what it meant. When I and my parents told people I was autistic, they always reacted with shock since I didn’t fit into…
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New Covid vaccine profile frame that you can add to your Facebook profile pic
By Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook 💉 If we’re going to stop Covid, we need everyone who’s eligible to get vaccinated. People are more likely to get vaccinated if they see friends, family and people they trust doing it too. So we’re launching new Covid vaccine profile frame that you can add…
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“Hey – why didn’t you pick up that Black guy!”
When I first moved to NYC in 1990, I was trying to hail a taxi on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. There was a Black man already standing there a hundred feet in front. As a taxi approached, it flew right by him in order to pick me up.…