Pressure is mounting on Congress to take action on Facebook. Our panel of experts offers their top priorities: user control of data, banking-like oversight and resources to close the digital divide.
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The commitment applies to the social network, but not necessarily to the metaverse.
In order to effectively regulate data-intensive, privately held global infrastructure like Facebook, human rights needs to be a primary focal point.
Corporate rebranding is fundamental to the spread of metacapitalism which uses increasingly sophisticated technology to shape, exploit and profit from human interaction.
This (virtual) reality is still probably many years away.
Facebook’s parent company is now called Meta, as part if its move to embrace the metaverse - the blurring of the online and real worlds via virtual and augmented reality technologies.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Omar H. Fares is a Friend of The Conversation.
Lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Professor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Computer Games and Associate Dean Engagement, Bond University
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Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham
