This story is pure spin. The idea that FB, which started out as a way to meet girls according to its founder and has warped into a surveillance-based advertising business that sells an addictive product to an uninformed audience and acts as a tax on online businesses by inserting itself into every aspect of ecommerce -- the idea that such a company is a `technical innovator` of some kind is hilarious.<p>FB has not invented any tech, unless you count React (an in-house copy of Angular) as tech. FB will not be bringing us any innovative new user interface devices, despite the hilarious high-school-level mockup strapped to someone's wrist. Zuck himself admitted that FB didn't even see video coming as a factor in social media. What innovators are these?<p>The reality is that FB is a washed out but still enormously profitable surveillance advertising and tax company. The writing is very much on the wall and Zuck knows it. The "Horizon" that's coming for FB is their end-of-life as a company. He knows that unless they manage to continue their surveillance advertising and taxation business in the "metaverse" (itself a washed-up idea), the user base and commensurate ad revenue can only decrease in the future.<p>This story was placed on CNET by some garbage PR firm to try to spin their image in a different direction -- one of an "innovator" who is ushering in the future.