David Bridges
Synopsis
Meta has been focusing on monetisation after suffering a massive stock market crash in February this year that shaved USD230 billion off its market cap. Being the company’s biggest market by user numbers, India is at the centre of the morphing that Meta is undergoing
In late 2014, when Mark Zuckerberg came to visit Chandauli, a village not too far from Alwar in Rajasthan, he was described by Time magazine as the man who was on a “crusade to put every single human being online”.The passing of time does change perception. A democratic turmoil here, a fake news-precipitated lynching there, and Zuckerberg is no longer the man who would change the world for the better. Far from it. Chandauli changed, too. Back in
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