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Social networks, Meta
Menlo Park, United States37.48°N 122.15°W
computed criticality10/100
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Meta (FB/Insta/WhatsApp) ~3.58 billion daily active people (family of apps, Dec. 2025)
2024Fault line
A major share of the world's personal communication and social information runs through one group's apps, with WhatsApp the messaging infrastructure of entire continents.
Actors
Meta
ByteDance (TikTok)
Tencent (WeChat)
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