Mark Zuckerbergs bislang größter juristischer Albtraum könnte Meta 1,4 Billionen Dollar kosten

> Meta Platforms could face an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in penalties after four states accused the tech giant of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict young users while misleading the public about the platforms‘ safety.

> The eye-watering figure was disclosed by Meta itself in a recent court filing responding to attorneys general’s proposed penalty calculations.

Realistically, I don’t think it’ll happen, but I’d love to be completely wrong about this.

Let’s turn this proposal into a reality, people.

I would argue they’ve done more damage to society and an entire generation worth more than $1.4 trillion.

Zuckerberg suddenly becoming very interested in the concept of „out of court settlement.“

Good, fuck’em, they’re a cancer on society

Speaking generally, the company was allowed to and did become as large as it did because on some level they gave some assurance they would be responsible and provide security (for numerous „stakeholders“) and various other functions.

None of that happened. In fact, as these lawsuits plainly state, they accomplished the precise opposite.

It’s a bit like they marketed a product as a universal cure for cancer, but it was actually high dosage methadone.

There is zero chance that they will get anything close to a 1 trillion dollar fine. Even if they get a huge fine they will spend years appealing it, it will get watered down.

Then chances are they will offer to settle for a much lesser amount end the lawsuits etc..

Look at the Sackler family and their role in the opioid crisis.

The companies should be sued into insolvency and its a card countries should be more willing to play.

If Joe Bloggs decided go around smashing up people’s cars, we wouldn’t say „Let’s only take 10% of his annual salary“.

He’d be liable for the damages caused. If that forced him into bankruptcy, tough shit.

Yes yes please. God please yes

That will never happen in the U.S. The 8th amendment prohibits excessive fines and on top of that a judge won’t allow a publicly traded company to tank the stock market with a huge fine thereby punishing average Americans‘ 401K’s and retirement accounts. For better or worse, that’s just the way things are. The tobacco companies got fined 200 million between 4 companies (average of 50 million per company) that they had to pay over 20 years and this was for quite literally killing around 100 million people over the 20th century.

Look at the Home page in Facebook. It’s some weird shit, 90% generated by low-quality AI. It’s quite obvious that the aim is to catch your attention to keep scrolling to show you more ads. The Facebook icon on your phone always shows a number of alerts, but this number completely lost its meaning. The only reason it’s there is to make you open the app and the number will reappear within a couple of minutes after closing the app, even though nothing new happened in your groups or among friends.

Promise?

I’d like it if it cost them more.

This would be one of the best things to ever happen in the world of tech. I bet they get $50M total and meta sells $500M in ads from the traffic of the case

Take it all.

Take the 6 massive Mega Mecha Super Enormous Yachts.

Take the 20 private jets.

Take the 10,000 acres on Hawaii.

Take the 50 mansions.

Take the $800 Billion other assets.

Take all of it.

And then throw this piece of shit in a prison cell.

If it doesn’t cost that twat CEO and his minions their freedom then the cost is nowhere near enough.

Lock them all up until they stop breathing.

Can we fine them more and put Zuck into prison? It would be great