It is well known but worth repeating that the internal motto of Facebook once used to be “move fast and break things”. The idea was that th...
It is well known but worth repeating that the internal motto of Facebook once used to be “move fast and break things”. The idea was that the engineers within the company should not be afraid to tinker with their product, with the ultimate aim being to grow as big as they possibly could. And grow they did.
The social media behemoth today has 2.7 billion monthly active users worldwide, and is even more entrenched in people’s lives because it also owns Instagram (another social network with half a billion monthly active users as well) and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is the default mode of communication in many parts of the world. All of this also means Facebook has a market capitalisation of $800 million, making it one of the richest, most powerful entities to have ever existed.
Its presence in India is even more complicated.
Facebook is a massive entity in India, both through its social network but also because of WhatsApp, which is now used at practically every level, including for official government business. The company’s political unit has worked directly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to expand his presence on the social network.
The company has partnered the Election Commission of India for...
