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the obvious aim of the then newly christened Meta to stake an ownership claim not only over users’ “true identities” but over all the things that populate their sensoria, replacing physical reality with virtual realities for which we would need a cascading array of subscriptions to navigate the ever-proliferating levels of differential access.

TikTok was successful launching in countries where the team building the apps did not even speak the local language or have any understanding of the content that was getting distributed.