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Re:Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued by giantrobot on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @07:41PM (#47419861)
They changed the name of the company to distance themselves from a number of scandals including Cambridge Analytica, COVID vaccine misinformation, and sitting on studies about teen mental health and social media use.[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59083601

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Re:Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued by aurareturn on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:53PM (#47428145)
Not sure why you're downvoted but I absolutely do think that they changed their name for better branding. I also think they were involved in a number of antitrust lawsuits so renaming their company to Meta says "see, we're the underdog in this new big VR industry, we're not a monopoly".
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