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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:37AM (#16687311)
> the vast majority of Facebook users are not from the US

49% of Facebook's 2017 worldwide revenues came from the U.S. and Canada [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680118... page 37

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by jobigoud on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:45AM (#16687377)
Yes but Facebook is driven by the network effect, and only 230M users are from the US, compared to the 2.2B global.
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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by stephengillie on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:51AM (#16687776)
Americans are subsidising Facebook for the rest of the world? It seems like we should get more for our money.
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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by Lio on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:39AM (#16688842)
You mean American corporations. American users aren't Facebook's customers.

All users are just product to Facebook.

It could well be that Facebook's American corporate customers are more interested in worldwide product than domestic product.

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Re:Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists by lev99 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:17AM (#16688578)
If they have more revenue per person in the US it doesn't mean that they are losing money in their international business.
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