It is also likely that Zuckerberg is trying to save face for Meta’s Reality Labs division in front of investors. The unit has been losing exponential amounts of money, with over $70 billion in losses since 2020. Despite that, it is unclear what the future holds, and who knows, maybe Zuckerberg’s idea of the future may come to fruition.

In many ways, we’re living in the world that Mark Zuckerberg built. No other person is as responsible for social media ’s rapid ascendance into ubiquity over the last two decade. The platforms he runs — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp — see more than 3 billion users total every day, and create billions in quarterly profit for corporate parent Meta.