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Facebook has quite a few offices in Europe. However most are probably just selling ads and doing localization.

Dublin, Ireland; Hamburg, Germany; London, UK; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; Paris, France; Stockholm, Sweden

"just selling ads"

"Just?" That's their whole business. If they're selling ads in a country, then they're "doing business" in that country.

Sure, but I am not quite sure how they are structuring this from a legal perspective. Wouldn't be surprised if this were in fact some pseudo-independently operating branches for both tax reasons as well as the protection of their US assets.

At that point they are required to follow German laws. Don't like it, remove your offices from Germany :P

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