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Meta made a chilling statement in its annual report: Facebook and Instagram may shut down in Europe if the company isn’t able to store and process data from the union’s users on US-based servers.
Now, this piece isn’t looking into the background of this event — or the fact Big Zuck has made this threat before.
Instead, it’s just a simple thought experiment where we imagine what the world would look like without Facebook and Instagram.
And, in my mind? It’ll be probably be something like this:

The horror, friends, the horror. Let’s come together and pray scenes like this never happen.
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