Meta

In ToTheMoon conversations Meta is the company that holds the race's main asset — distribution to billions of people through WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook — and keeps looking for something to fill it with. The hosts ask whether Meta can turn that audience into a habit of using its AI, and later whether a personal intelligence can belong to a person when it is built by the corporation that owns the social networks.

In autumn 2024 Meta's glasses were praised for being light and controlled from a wristband, and the strategy was read as a cheap entry into virtual reality against Apple's far more expensive device (episode 026). In 2025 the standalone Meta AI app was treated as a direct attack on ChatGPT (episode 048). By late summer the tone had shifted: Google had a coherent stack while Meta was mired in reorganisations, its problem organisational above all (episode 073).

In 2026 Meta returns through deals and lawsuits. The Manus purchase was explained by the observation that a strong model without access to products stays a laboratory, while Meta has social networks in which to embed agency (episode 091). A suit by twenty-six employees showed algorithmic processes reaching real layoffs (episode 137), and Muse Code showed Meta entering a market where Codex and Claude Code are already strong (episode 147). Zuckerberg's manifesto was checked point by point, with the reminder that “An enormous number of people do not trust Meta” — over data storage and data centres rather than philosophy (episode 152).