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Changemakers: Meta’s Angie Gifford shares the social giant’s predictions for the metaverse future

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Changemakers: Meta’s Angie Gifford shares the social giant’s predictions for the metaverse future

Changemakers: Meta’s Angie Gifford shares the social giant’s predictions for the metaverse future

Creativity is all about connection and increasingly brands will communicate via evolving technologies as the metaverse takes shape, says Meta’s Angie Gifford.


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