Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

Ben Werdmuller

27 Jul 2022

“The leadership of Meta and Facebook now views the entire machine of Facebook's social network as a legacy operation. They aim to keep cranking it to generate the cash they need to subsidize their decade-long plan to build the metaverse — where, maybe, social networking will be reborn in a 3D interface.” #Technology

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