The new season of Vox Media Podcast Network’s award-winning narrative podcast Land of the Giants is debuting next week, on July 13th. This time, Recode senior correspondent Shirin Ghaffary and The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath team up to tell the story of Meta, formerly known as Facebook, at a pivotal moment — both for the tech giant and for the billions of people who use its products.
Under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the same man who co-founded Facebook from his college dorm room in 2004, Meta is trying to transition away from its complicated legacy as a social media company to a futuristic metaverse vision that aims to reshape the future of the internet. This transition is happening while criticisms from users, regulators,…
