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How Meta plans to invest $10 billion in technology

Meta, the newly-named parent company of Facebook, is investing $10 billion in technologies to develop the metaverse this year alone. So how will it spend that money on the new virtual worlds it wants to create?

Bloomberg News senior editor Mike Regan joins us.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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