The British East India was also founded around the same time. Their cultural impact was at the time certainly as vast as Facebook's, the company literally passe

The British East India was also founded around the same time. Their cultural impact was at the time certainly as vast as Facebook's, the company literally passed laws in India. The salt monopoly and taxes was at the centre of one of the most important events in Indian history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March