It wasn't long ago that Zuckerberg had deployed the metaverse in developer-conference keynotes the way he did with Muse this week: as a bright spot to rally the company around amid never-ending litigation and social backlash related to the company's core products, which went all but unmentioned on Wednesday. It wasn't long ago that Zuckerberg told us that the metaverse would be where billions of people were spending their time. And so, when he says that — never mind — it's actually Muse where everyone will be spending their time, there's more than a little reason to doubt him.
