BUZZING· 76%30m·2026-04-12·MoneyHow Did the Metaverse Fail So Badly?
In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg stood in front of the world and announced that the future of human interaction would be something called the metaverse. He was so confident about this that he renamed his three-billion-user company after it. Over the following four years, Meta spent $88 billion building a virtual world…
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