{"id":129654,"date":"2021-10-29T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/updated-facebook-changes-parent-company-name-to-meta"},"modified":"2021-10-29T05:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:40:21","slug":"updated-facebook-changes-parent-company-name-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/updated-facebook-changes-parent-company-name-to-meta","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Facebook changes parent company name to \u2018Meta\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.updated-facebook-changes-parent-company-name-to-meta.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced the parent company\u2019s name is being changed to \u201cMeta\u201d to represent a future beyond just its troubled social network.<\/p>\n<p>The new handle comes as the social media giant tries to fend off one its worst crises yet and pivot to its ambitions for the \u201cmetaverse\u201d virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will keep their names under the rebranding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced the parent company\u2019s name is being changed to \u201cMeta\u201d to represent a future beyond just its troubled social network. The new handle comes as the social media giant tries to fend off one its worst crises yet and pivot to its ambitions for the \u201cmetaverse\u201d virtual reality version [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}