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Mathew Olson
 |  March 9, 2021 11:01 AM PST
Photo: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at an Oculus event in 2018. Photo by Bloomberg

Welcome back!

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t often give long interviews about the scope and ambition of Facebook’s AR and VR projects, as he did for the podcast we published on Monday (listen here, transcript here). So I hope you’ll allow me to indulge in a deeper dive into a couple points from the interview in today’s newsletter.

Let’s talk about Elon Musk a little, shall we?

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