Technology

In a rather surprising move, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at its annual Connect conference that he’d be renaming the company in an effort to diversify the brand. Don’t worry; your grandmother’s favorite social networking site will still be known as Facebook. But as for the company that created it? Going forward, they’ll be known as Meta. Effectively relegating the Facebook platform to becoming merely a subsidiary, the name change signifies the company’s desire to rebrand itself in the wake of intense scrutiny over the harmful real-world effects of Facebook’s algorithms. In changing the name, it’s clear that the company wants to partially divorce its image from being