{"id":129679,"date":"2021-10-29T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-says-its-ridiculous-to-think-he-changed-facebooks-name-to-skirt-the-latest-wave-of-controversy"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:22:57","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-says-its-ridiculous-to-think-he-changed-facebooks-name-to-skirt-the-latest-wave-of-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-says-its-ridiculous-to-think-he-changed-facebooks-name-to-skirt-the-latest-wave-of-controversy","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg says it\u2019s \u2018ridiculous\u2019 to think he changed Facebook\u2019s name to skirt the latest wave of controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mark-zuckerberg-says-its-ridiculous-to-think-he-changed-facebooks-name-to-skirt-the-latest-wave-of-controversy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg said it was \u201cridiculous\u201d for people to think that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-new-name-meta-rebrand-metaverse-zuckerberg-apps-2021-10\">he changed Facebook\u2019s name to Meta<\/a> because of the recent wave of backlash.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22749919\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-meta-company-rebrand\">The Verge<\/a> in an interview \u2014 which was published shortly after the name change was announced Thursday \u2014 that the current news cycle had no effect on the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I think some people might want to make that connection, I think that\u2019s sort of a ridiculous thing,\u201d Zuckerberg told the outlet. \u201cIf anything, I think that this is not the environment that you would want to introduce a new brand in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg said it was \u201cridiculous\u201d for people to think that he changed Facebook\u2019s name to Meta because of the recent wave of backlash. The CEO told The Verge in an interview \u2014 which was published shortly after the name change was announced Thursday \u2014 that the current news cycle had no effect on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129679","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=129679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}