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by AlecSchueler 1066 days ago
I thought this was the idea. The public stopped trusting Facebook so they needed to obfuscate.

It's scary when you open Instagram and it says "from Facebook" but meh when it says "from Meta."

Same as reading "business X acquired by Facebook" versus "acquired by Meta."

It's a form of reputation separation. Same thing Google did with Alphabet.

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Honestly why have the “From whatever” at all?
I thought it's to transmit good reputation to Meta

E.g. when people trust WhatsApp, and then see it's from Meta, they may trust Meta more too