Facebook plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Oct. 18, to help build the so-called metaverse—an online world where people can use different devices to move and communicate in a virtual environment.
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been talking up metaverse since July, and the buzzy word, first coined in a dystopian novel three decades earlier, has been referenced by other tech firms, such as Microsoft.
