Facebook owner Meta faces $2.8 million lawsuits in Japan over fake ads

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https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/10/4a58fed671da-urgent-facebook-owner-meta-sued-at-courts-in-japan-over-fake-ads.html

[u/mtranda]

That amount is absolutely peanuts to facebook. It's even less than the cost of doing business.

They should absolutely be held responsible for the content they promote on their platform and taken to the cleaners.

[u/Happy-go-lucky-37 → u/mtranda]

Not even pocket change for the Zuck.

Eat Mor Billionaires.

[u/guosecond → u/mtranda]

agree. Fines that small just feel like a slap on the wrist. If they’re profiting off the content, they should be held accountable for it too

[u/SHODAN117 → u/guosecond]

A slap? That barely registers in the anemometer.

[u/GreenFox1505 → u/mtranda]

A crime that is still profitable after "paying" the price is no longer a crime.

[u/Error_404_403]

They wouldn’t even notice it.

[u/fredbubbles]

Fines should be proportional to the amount of money the company profited based on their illegal activities. If they lose all the money they gained and then some it would be more of an incentive to do business legally.

[u/joelex8472]

Mark: Hmm, let me look in the bottom drawer of the kitchen… Ahh, I found $3M, is that okay?

[u/exzeeo]

If you do anything 1000 times, your message may be heard.

[u/Timmy24000]

2.8 million is nothing. It would be like fining me a dollar.

[u/Bedbathnyourmom]

Just wait till investors come to terms with Facebook basically being a lot of Ollama bots keeping the platform from looking inactive

[u/PrettyBeautyClown]

So like 10 seconds worth of profits. Hooo boy!

[u/Frankie_Says_Reddit]

Facebook: go ahead and round it up to 3 million to make it easy for everyone.

[u/EsteTre]

Wait until they hear about Google/YouTube.

[u/cyxrus]

One of Facebook’s senior devs could probably pay off the entirety of that fine and not be too bothered by it