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Subscribe to The Hustle Daily Newsletter: https://clickhubspot.com/dml On this day in 2021, Facebook renamed itself Meta. Whether it was reports of Instagram’s harmful effects on teens or fury over fake news spread through social media, Facebook’s name change was in many ways an abandonment of the past and a full-on embrace of the future. Video hosted by Michael Sikand.