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11 Welsh, Oli. “The metaverse, explained: While boardrooms chase a VR internet no one asked for, video game metaverses are all around us,” Polygon, 6 March 2022.

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12 Shina, Disha. “Top 10 Companies Working on the Metaverse and its Developments in 2022,” Analytics Insight, 19 February 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-companies-working-on-metaverse-and-its-developments-in-2022/

13 Morrison, Ryan. “No Zuck-in way! Mark Zuckerberg claims we will all 'live' in the metaverse in the future and leave reality behind for a virtual world of our own creation,” Dailymail.com, 3 March 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10573907/Mark-Zuckerberg-claims-live-metaverse-future.html

14 Chirinos, Carmela. “Mark Zuckerberg defies haters of the Metaverse, reveals his vision for a digital world where you can make eye contact with others,” Fortune, 25 March 2022.

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15 Ibid

16Helms, Kevin. “Metaverse Real Estate Sales Expected to Reach $1 Billion This Year,” Bitcoin.com, 4 February 2022. Retrieved from: https://news.bitcoin.com/metaverse-real-estate-sales-expected-to-reach-1-billion-this-year/

17 Kim, Sunny. “The risks and rewards of investing in the metaverse real estate boom,” CNBC, 11 February 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/11/the-risks-and-rewards-of-investing-in-the-metaverse-real-estate-boom.html

18 Redman, Jamie. “As Virtual Real Estate Gets Pricey Terrazero Technologies Provides Metaverse Mortgages,” Bitcoin.com News, 19 February 2022. Retrieved from: https://news.bitcoin.com/as-virtual-real-estate-gets-pricey-terrazero-technologies-provides-metaverse-mortgages/

19 Ibid

20 Kelly, Jemima. “What Meta’s VR advert tells us about life in the metaverse.” Financial Times, 25 February 2022.

21 Shead, Sam. “Mark Zuckerberg says a new skin-like material could support metaverse ambitions, CNBC, 1 November 2021. Retrieved from: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/01/mark-zuckerberg-says-a-new-material-could-support-metaverse-ambitions.html

22 Murphy, Hannah. “Meta patents show how it visualises cashing in on an avatar-filled world: Trademarks suggest Facebook’s parent aims to harvest facial expressions and develop ‘hyper-targeted’ metaverse ads,” Financial Times, 19 January 2022.

23 Ibid

24 Ibid

25 Quoted in Gordon, Peter. “New Biography Focuses on Karl Instead of Marxism,” review of Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (The Belknap Press/Harvard University, 2016), Book Review, The New York Times, 10 October 2016. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/books/review/karl-marx-gareth-steadman-jones.html

26 Auerbach, David. “The metaverse will steal your identity: Individuality will dissolve into mindless conformity,” Unherd, 3 March 2022. Retrieved from: https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-metaverse-will-steal-your-identity/)

27 Ibid

28 Ibid

29 Angus Crawford and Tony Smith. “Metaverse app allows kids into virtual strip clubs,” BBC, 23 February 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60415317

30 “CREEPY INCIDENT IN METAVERSE: IS SAFETY AT CRISIS?,” Analytics Insight, 3 March 2022). Retrieved from: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/creepy-incident-in-metaverse-is-safety-at-crisis/

31 Clarke, Laurie: “Can we create a moral metaverse?,” The Guardian, 14 May 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/14/can-we-create-a-moral-metaverse

32 Smith, Adam. “Woman says she was virtually ‘raped’ in the metaverse while others ‘passed around a bottle of vodka’,” Independent, 30 March 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/rape-metaverse-woman-oculus-facebook-b2090491.html