A look into how Facebook earns money in China, even though its platform is banned from operating in the country.
Facebook’s website has been blocked for over a decade in China, while its CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone from would-be friend of Beijing to one of its leading critics in Silicon Valley. Even so, the social media giant has discovered a highly lucrative way to make money from Chinese advertisers.
Facebook now generates more than $5 billion a year in revenue from China, according to an estimate from Brian Wieser, an analyst at equity research firm Pivotal Research — all with apparent Chinese g
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