Seriously, look at that list of all the times Meta stole people's handles. Why would this time be any different?
Note that if this was done against the band's will it would be fantastic publicity for them to say so. Everyone would be on their side.
Meta probably reached out to them to remove any uncertainty around sharing the Muse trademark, and this was included in the deal. The band themselves didn't lose any followers, it was a rename. They might have asked for a clause not to talk about the deal.
The name changed happened across platforms including Twitter\X.
Meta doesn’t own X.
Is nobody reading the article? This comment section is crazy.
Not reading TFA (the fine article) has been a noble Internet tradition since (at least) the earliest days of Slashdot.
But the mating displays about every company being a conspiracy are about Reddit era, IIRC.
Read the TOS for these services ... you don't own anything stored on their servers