Facebook changed its company name to Meta in October to reflect its focus on creating virtual spaces where people can work, play and socialize. Now the social media giant is revising its values.
In a note to Facebook employees, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined six of the company’s newest values – move fast, focus on long-term impact, build something awesome, live in the future, straightforward and respectful Your colleague, “Meta, Metamates, Me”–quote the naval phrase “ship, shipmate, myself.”
It’s about our sense of responsibility for our collective success and our sense of responsibility to each other as teammates. It’s about taking care of our company and each other,” Zuckerberg wrote in the note, which he shared publicly on Facebook on Tuesday. notes. Facebook wrote its values in 2007.
The social network’s rebranding and the company’s updated values show Facebook’s efforts to revamp its battered image. The social network has faced criticism from politicians, advocacy groups and others for failing to protect user privacy and combat hate speech and misinformation.
Some Meta employees are also questioning whether the company should create new products without addressing all the problems it already has on its social media platform, The New York Times reported in February. Meta will likely have a harder time regulating offensive content like online harassment in the metaspace, an issue the company is already grappling with within virtual reality.
Meanwhile, Meta’s problems are mounting. On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Meta, accusing the company of violating the state’s privacy laws by harvesting the biometric data of tens of millions of Texans without proper consent.
A Meta spokesman responded: “There is no legal basis for these requests.” On Tuesday, Facebook also announced that it would start calling its news feed a feed to reflect the kinds of content users see on the platform.