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FACEBOOK PLANS TO HIRE 10,000 IN EUROPE TO BUILD ‘METAVERSE’

Facebook said it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform that promises to connect people virtually but could raise concerns about privacy and the social platform gaining more control over people’s online lives.

The company said in a blog post that those high-skilled workers will help build“the metaverse,”a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality.

Facebook executives have been touting the metaverse as the

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