• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      Isn’t Facebook still Facebook? Meta is the parent company that owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Oculus, Onavo, Beluga, and about 90 other tech companies. They do just like Google, or Alphabet, and buy out every tech startup that has any chance of success to ensure they never have competition.

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      The Twitter brand was the most valuable part of that company. If Musk is dumb enough to throw that away, I will GLADLY call it “X.”

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      No, I always call it Fuckbook and don’t intend to change that but yea, definitely not Meta!

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      TruthX. It brings it more in line with SpaceX and model X, and also tells what it’s turning into.

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        Didn’t Trump already claim the Orwellian social media company name? The one where you get your turds (or whatever they call them) deleted for contradicting Dear Leader?