A Lib Dem peer and former Facebook vice president has today claimed the social media firm’s name change to Meta has been a ‘long time coming’ and is not related to the company’s whistleblower scandal.
Lord Richard Allen, who worked with the US tech giant for 10 years, says the firm’s announcement is about addressing ‘confusion’ between Facebook the company and Facebook the product.
Currently the overarching company behind Facebook is called Facebook Inc and operates the social media site,