Tech Empire #12: Facebook & the Metaverse: Myths and Reality with Mark Sullivan
Jul 13, 2026
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This episode welcomes journalist Mark Sullivan to discuss the metaverse. Mark has written several articles on the metaverse at the news media outlet, Fast Company. This episode will dig into the question: what is going on with this thing called the metaverse? Mark is going to explain to us what it is, and how it might look in the future. We’re to cover questions about how companies will make money, advertising, hype, how this could be a privacy and misinformation hellscape, and the little-discussed prospect of digital colonialism.