Facebook’s future tops agenda at Web Summit


Beyond the metaverse, major themes of the Web Summit include the extent to which technology can help to mitigate climate change – a timely issue given that the conference coincides with the COP26 global climate negotiations in Scotland. — Reuters

PARIS: Facebook will face intense scrutiny over its future at next week’s Web Summit, with its “Meta” rebrand and a damaging whistleblower scandal set to dominate discussions at one of the world’s biggest tech conferences.

The gathering of the global tech elite in Portugal’s capital Lisbon is set to welcome some 40,000 people from Monday evening through Thursday.

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