Facebook Eyes 10,000 EU Jobs To Build 'Metaverse'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The European Union hires, spread over the next five years, will include "highly specialised engineers", but the company otherwise gave few details of its plans for the new metaverse team.
48% : Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.
44% : The announcement comes as Facebook grapples with the fallout of a damaging scandal, major outages of its services, and rising calls for regulation to curb its vast influence.
31% : Andreas Aktoudianakis, EU lead digital policy analyst at the European Policy Centre, noted that Facebook has "a bad reputation to fix" and that the metaverse announcement represented "a positive narrative" in troubled times.

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