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This is _unlikely_; but you're being unfairly downvoted — AFAICT that's the EU's stance to GDPR — that it applies to EU citizens _worldwide_, as well as EU _residents_ so a pure region/geolock is not going to cut it.

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Interesting. I’m a EU citizen but not resident. Would I be able to convince Meta et al that GDPR applies to me?

You might want to contact some organisations that deal with this, like NOYB [1].

IANAL, and I think the law is... more sophisticated than just "EU citizens worldwide"; but it happens to catch most of bigTech's anyway; because a bunch of their operations are legally running out of Ireland (for tax avoidance reasons) [2]; but I'll readily admit that this mostly something I have seen mentioned online few times and didn't do any deep research on.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOYB

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

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