On May 22, The Capitol Forum hosted a Tech Policy Briefing conference call with investigative journalist Julia Angwin.
In this timely discussion, Angwin examines mounting questions surrounding Meta’s long-term business model, including escalating AI expenditures, slowing user growth, platform fatigue, and the company’s continued investments in the metaverse and wearable technology. Drawing on her recent New York Times opinion essay, “Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time,” as well as her broader reporting and analysis, she explores whether Meta is entering a period of structural decline and what that could mean for technology markets, media, and society more broadly.
The conversation also covers Meta’s growing AI infrastructure and capital expenditures, signs of slowing growth and weakening user engagement across the company’s platforms, investments in smart glasses, virtual reality, and metaverse initiatives, ongoing social media addiction litigation and broader regulatory pressures, how rising debt levels and increasing monetization demands could affect Meta’s long-term strategy, and the implications of these developments for investors, policymakers, competitors, and consumers.
