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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties (fortune.com)
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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And they could even pay that off in 200 easy instalments!

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Funny you mention that, oil companies at least typically pay the first payment or two on fines then stop paying and the feds let it slide. Or in shitholy states like ND they get the state courts to lower the fines to nothing after attention has died down.