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Podcast: The Vergecast
Episode: Land of the Giants: It's a WhatsApp world
Description: We're sharing an episode of Land of the Giants: The Facebook / Meta disruption, a collaboration between Recode and The Verge.Meta’s most expensive acquisition ever and one of the most used communication apps in the world: WhatsApp. With over 2 billion users, WhatsApp is embedded in the social, economic, and political infrastructure of countries across the globe. For better and worse. The story of WhatsApp’s incredible power, as told through its largest market: India.NOTE: There are descriptions of graphic acts of violence in this episode. If you want to skip these descriptions, the sect...