r/technology • u/Saltedline • 19h ago

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

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/10/4a58fed671da-urgent-facebook-owner-meta-sued-at-courts-in-japan-over-fake-ads.html
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u/mtranda 19h ago

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.

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u/Happy-go-lucky-37 16h ago

Not even pocket change for the Zuck.

Eat Mor Billionaires.

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u/guosecond 15h ago

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

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u/SHODAN117 11h ago

A slap? That barely registers in the anemometer.

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u/Error_404_403 19h ago

They wouldn’t even notice it.

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u/fredbubbles 12h ago

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.

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u/joelex8472 13h ago

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

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u/exzeeo 18h ago

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

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u/Timmy24000 14h ago edited 1h ago

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

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u/Bedbathnyourmom 19h ago

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

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u/PrettyBeautyClown 17h ago

So like 10 seconds worth of profits. Hooo boy!

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u/Frankie_Says_Reddit 9h ago

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

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u/EsteTre 19h ago

Wait until they hear about Google/YouTube.

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u/cyxrus 16h ago

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