{"id":129738,"date":"2021-10-31T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/zuckerberg-accused-other-tech-firms-of-stifling-innovation-with-high-fees-as-he-laid-out-plans-for-metaverse"},"modified":"2021-10-31T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T15:22:34","slug":"zuckerberg-accused-other-tech-firms-of-stifling-innovation-with-high-fees-as-he-laid-out-plans-for-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/zuckerberg-accused-other-tech-firms-of-stifling-innovation-with-high-fees-as-he-laid-out-plans-for-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg accused other tech firms of stifling innovation with high fees as he laid out plans for metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zuckerberg-accused-other-tech-firms-of-stifling-innovation-with-high-fees-as-he-laid-out-plans-for-metaverse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg accused other tech companies of \u201cstifling innovation\u201d with high fees and little choice for consumers during a live stream on Thursday, all while his company faces an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/19\/ftc-files-new-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html\">antitrust lawsuit from the federal government<\/a> and heightened pressure from Congress over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/25\/facebook-whistleblower-documents-released-shares-under-pressure.html\">recently-leaked internal documents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg made the comments at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-changes-company-name-to-meta.html\">Facebook Connect event<\/a> Thursday, where he announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/28\/facebook-changes-company-name-to-meta.html\">the company has changed its name to Meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also laid out the company\u2019s plans to build a metaverse \u2014 a virtual reality experience where people can meet online. His comments seemed to allude to mobile operating systems like those created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>, though he did not mention any company by name or specify the types of platforms he was talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg accused other tech companies of \u201cstifling innovation\u201d with high fees and little choice for consumers during a live stream on Thursday, all while his company faces an antitrust lawsuit from the federal government and heightened pressure from Congress over recently-leaked internal documents Zuckerberg made the comments at the Facebook Connect event [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129738","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=129738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}