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India, July 25 — Facebook Inc. showed that its business can weather all kinds of regulatory scrutiny — as long as people keep flocking to Facebook.
The company seemed to be facing dire consequences as months of regulatory drama came to a head all at once this week. There was a $5 billion U.S. Federal Trade Commission settlement on privacy, and a separate $100 million accord with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to the same issue. The U.S. Department of Justice announced a looming antitrust probe late Tuesday, and then Facebook said Wednesday afternoon that the FTC opened an official investigation into antitrust issues.
Many of these inquiries have been brewing for more than a year. But none of it has affected the company…