Irish Examiner view: Facebook tries to move on after blast of scandals

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaving The Merrion Hotel in Dublin after a meeting with politicians to discuss regulation of social media and harmful content.

Facebook has plans to hire 10,000 workers in the EU over the next five years to work on a new computing platform.

The company, built on a mantra to “move fast and break things”, will use these staff to help build “the metaverse”, a virtual world built through augmented and virtual reality.