Facebook is changing its name, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced. The parent company will now be known as “Meta”, he said. It will also get a new logo, with a blue “M”. The change is an attempt to bring focus to its work on the “metaverse”, as it refers to a host of augmented and virtual reality features that it claims will be the future of social networking. But it might also be an attempt to shift focus away from its ongoing controversies. Mr Zuckerberg said the name “Facebook” does not reflect everything the company did, pointing to existing