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Facebook posts can be made for only friends to see. Other social media has similar controls.

Facebook also has private messaging.

And when those private messages get sent to someone in the US or those friends are in the US, what do you think is going to happen with the data?

You're moving the goal posts. Your claim was that all posts are globally public. That's wrong.

But to play along, what happens to the data depends on where it is stored. If the data center is in the US then the government can get a court order to seize that data. Which is not the same as in some other countries, is it?

well, what would happen is facebook getting 1.3B fine

So now the EU is saying that Facebook shouldn’t allow people in the EU to talk to people in the US?

That's not what the EU said. You can read the publicly available ruling. Or any of the hundreds of articles summarizing the ruling.

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