I've never heard of Meta, so, like any normal human being I went on their website. [1]<p>TLDR: From a glance, this entire organization's existence is centered around the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. There's no indication of anything useful they've done for real. I'm sure I could find that information if I bothered to look more, but for an organization that describes themselves as "mission-driven", and one that is "working on problems that matter," I fail to see any of those problems, or how this organization has contributed to the solution. I mean, not even a link to "Solutions" or "Mission" or "About". Nada. I'm very curious to how this page looked [yesterday].<p>Organizations that actually do stuff don't hesitate to put it front and center of their website, for example:<p>- <a href="https://www.change.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.change.org/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.planet.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.planet.com/</a><p>This is literally a sentence by sentence breakdown of everything on Meta.com at the time of this posting.<p>> "Most scientific breakthroughs have been preceded by the invention of new tools that help us see and experiment in new ways."<p>Great! Oh, this is just a quote from Mark Zuckerberg, linking to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. OK. Moving along.<p>> Meta is joining the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.<p>OK, got it. There's a bunch of corporate speak that you'll see if you click it. I won't click it because I want to know what Meta does outside of the whole CZI thing.<p>> Reserve a free account<p>> Meta is a tool that helps researchers understand what is happening globally in science and shows them where science is headed. Pending shareholder and court approval, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is acquiring Meta to help bring its technologies to the entire scientific community.<p>Sign up now to reserve your free account.<p>Neat! If you go to <a href="https://meta.science/reserve" rel="nofollow">https://meta.science/reserve</a>, where you actually can reserve you'll see more CZI stuff. Again, there's no indication of what these people do, in practice.<p>> Join a mission-driven organization working on problems that matter<p>Awesome! Oh, wait, this is just a link to their hiring page.<p>What exactly do these people do, specifically? Sure they "help researchers understand what is happening globally", but that's so vague. Google and Wikipedia technically do that too in a way.<p>[1] <a href="http://meta.com/" rel="nofollow">http://meta.com/</a>