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Nokia is owned by Microsoft AFAIK, Fuck Microshaft.
Fuck Microsoft indeed, but no they do not own Nokia and (contrary to popular belief) they never actually did.
Nokia was infiltrated by a career Microsoft exec named Stephen Elop (one of the single largest shareholders of Microsoft) who became CEO and did his best to run the company into the ground. He had them making Windows phones and eventually sold their mobile division to Microsoft along with temporary rights to sell phones under the Nokia brand name, but that only lasted until 2016.
Today Nokia-branded phones are manufactured by Foxconn on behalf of HMD Global (a Finnish company partly owned by Nokia).