Metaverse, Mars, meditation retreats: billionaires want to escape the world they ruined | Sam Wolfson

Zuckerberg wants us to all turn our attention to a land of make-believe to distract from his PR disaster while Bezos and Musk are obsessed with leaving the planet

On Thursday Facebook announced a groundbreaking and innovative new distraction from their PR disaster. As journalists continue to pore over thousands of leaked documents that show the company is fully aware that it is degrading democratic societies, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is changing its name to Meta, has a new logo that looks like a Na'vi bending over, and is going to pivot from spreading vaccine disinformation to creating a super-lame version of Second Life.

Zuckerberg promised that in the future we would all work, play and organise surprise birthday parties" as avatars in Facebook's virtual-reality Metaverse". His examples of how this might work had all the cultural awareness of a Kendall Roy social media strategy.