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# Will the Metaverse save journalism?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2021/10/meta-nonsense/
- Published: 2021-10-29T11:15:55.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-08T16:28:13.000Z
- Description: A big and important post on the future of news. Or not.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: metaverse, future of news

No. 

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Now we've sorted that, enjoy this Metaverse/journalism discourse from the internets:

> brb, pitching "Will the metaverse save journalism?" panels to all the media/journalism events of the next 18 months
> 
> — Thomas Seymat (@tseymat) [October 28, 2021](https://twitter.com/tseymat/status/1453799102186246146?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### Nobody would do this

> I’ll buy a beer for the first person who writes the “Will the Metaverse Save Journalism?” Medium piece.
> 
> — Aron Pilhofer (@pilhofer) [October 28, 2021](https://twitter.com/pilhofer/status/1453799491300036624?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### Oh, wait, they did

[Will the metaverse save journalism?No.![](https://cdn-static-1.medium.com/_/fp/icons/Medium-Avatar-500x500.svg)MediumBrad Heath![](https://miro.medium.com/proxy/1*kFrc4tBFM_tCis-2Ic87WA.png)](https://medium.com/@bradheath/will-the-metaverse-save-journalism-c4a47201ddfd?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

And they made the same bloody joke as me. Is there nothing new?

### We heard you liked the internet, so we put an internet inside your internet

> Sorry but random metaverse thought - what's the future of journalism in the Facebook metaverse? Could it start recreating our news stories and articles in there via AR to enliven this vision of the metaverse as an "embodied internet"?
> 
> — Liv McMahon (@liv\_mcmahon) [October 29, 2021](https://twitter.com/liv%5Fmcmahon/status/1454014279724773378?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### Don't even joke about it

> Metaverse-Ethics-in-Game-Journalism-Full-Self-Driving-Crypto-Make-America-Great-Again-NFT™️
> 
> — Eric (@ericmortensen) [October 28, 2021](https://twitter.com/ericmortensen/status/1453810591697670152?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### Joke or accurate prediction?

> In the metaverse you get to kill off democracy and journalism and public health for golden points [https://t.co/HhvxTH9Zgm](https://t.co/HhvxTH9Zgm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)
> 
> — Chris Taylor (@christaylor\_nyc) [October 28, 2021](https://twitter.com/christaylor%5Fnyc/status/1453794860167794692?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### MetaListicles FTW

> Eight ways the metaverse could 'transform journalism'  
>  
> Seven metaverse tools for journalists  
>  
> my blog died so I'll have to make this exclusive email content. sign up now
> 
> — Dave Earley (@earleyedition) [October 22, 2021](https://twitter.com/earleyedition/status/1451346108651692035?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### Oh, God, another one

[Will the Metaverse save journalism?I’m writing this in the hope of winning a beer, But the answer’s easy. Because we’ve been here before.![](https://cdn-static-1.medium.com/_/fp/icons/Medium-Avatar-500x500.svg)MediumThomas Seymat![](https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*Fbhuq7JTxB1qxrFKGxe6xQ.jpeg)](https://medium.com/@tseymat/will-the-metaverse-save-journalism-a4ce044c948e?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

### I almost hope this is true

> Hot take: we're already in the Metaverse and all of our "Will X Save Journalism?" pieces are already written, and we should just really be hoping that no one pulls the plug.
> 
> — David Smydra (@smydrad) [October 28, 2021](https://twitter.com/smydrad/status/1453801903645728780?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

*(Enough Metaverse. Ed.)*