{"id":938905,"date":"2021-10-29T19:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938905"},"modified":"2021-10-29T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:28:54","slug":"oops-facebook-meta-means-facebook-is-dead-in-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oops-facebook-meta-means-facebook-is-dead-in-hebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops: &#039;Facebook Meta&#039; Means &#039;Facebook Is Dead&#039; in Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foops-facebook-meta-means-facebook-is-dead-in-hebrew%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938905&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-is-dead-Flickr-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Facebook unveiled a new corporate name and logo this week, \u201cFacebook Meta,\u201d prompting some hilarity among tech-savvy Israelis, who noted that the the phrase, when translated into Hebrew, also means \u201cFacebook is dead\u201d or \u201cFacebook died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cmeta\u201d is the feminine form of the verb \u201cmet,\u201d which means \u201cdead.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-59090067\">reported<\/a> Friday that Hebrew speakers were ridiculing the new Facebook name and logo:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p>Facebook\u2019s announcement that it is changing its name to Meta has caused quite the stir in Israel where the word sounds like that for \u201cdead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To be precise, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have taken to Twitter to share their take on the name under the hashtag #FacebookDead.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency rescue volunteers Zaka even got involved, telling their followers on Twitter: \u201cDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019re on it\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.58\">\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05dc\u05d0 \u05dc\u05d3\u05d0\u05d5\u05d2, \u05d0\u05e0\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5 \u05e2\u05dc \u05d6\u05d4.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A7_%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%94?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u05e4\u05d9\u05d9\u05e1\u05d1\u05d5\u05e7_\u05de\u05ea\u05d4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u05d6\u05e7\u05f4\u05d0 (@zakaHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zakaHQ\/status\/1453807405024923650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.544776119403\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More precisely: in Hebrew &#8220;meta&#8221; means &#8220;died&#8221; or &#8220;is dead&#8221; in the feminine. The word for &#8220;company&#8221; is also feminine. <br \/>Your Hebrew lesson for today:<br \/>\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05ea \u05e4\u05d9\u05d9\u05e1\u05d1\u05d5\u05e7 \u05de\u05ea\u05d4.<br \/>&#8220;Facebook died.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3KfEqaSZbV\">https:\/\/t.co\/3KfEqaSZbV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gershom Gorenberg  (@GershomG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GershomG\/status\/1454044835221053443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Facebook also earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/very-meta-twitter-cracks-up-over-facebook-rebrand\/\">ridicule<\/a> from English speakers over the new name, which the company adopted just as it came under intense scrutiny from both left and right.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-politics-decision-making-documents-11635100195\">reported<\/a> earlier this week that Facebook had suppressed Breitbart News\u2019 traffic for political reasons (though Breitbart News continues to lead among political news sites on the platform).<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/26\/establishment-media-shut-down-secret-chat-room-coordinating-facebook-whistleblower-document-releases-after-breitbart-news-inquiries\/\">reported<\/a> on the coordination among establishment media outlets in reporting the \u201cFacebook papers,\u201d which apparently led to a Slack channel among the various sites being shut down earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\"><em>The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it)<\/em><\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopcatalog.com\">www.shopcatalog.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook unveiled a new corporate name and logo this week, \u201cFacebook Meta,\u201d prompting some hilarity among tech-savvy Israelis, who noted that the the phrase, when translated into Hebrew, also means &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}