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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant (www.bbc.com)

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[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

While technically true, the fine is actually around 0.7% of what they lost on metaverse (estimated 80 billion)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

God, I love math nerds on Lemmy.

Thank you for this and Happy Friday.

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[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

How does on spend 80 billion on a metaverse? (And would it have been another 40 billion to add legs?)

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Thanks! I guess the article I use for reference was from near the start of that debacle.

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