Nigeria fined Meta Platforms $220 million, its competition watchdog said on Friday, after investigations showed data-sharing on social platforms violated local consumer, data protection and privacy laws.

  • @randoot
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    92 months ago

    There’s no way they make enough from Nigeria to warrant paying that fine. They’ll just threaten to close shop there and the government will just drop the fine.

    • slazer2au
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      32 months ago

      Drop the fine after …donating(?)… To an official in charge of dropping the fine.

      • @randoot
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        42 months ago

        True. Although it’s Facebook. They could just tweak the algo in favor of the opposition candidate.

        • Possibly linux
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          22 months ago

          Or overthrow the government and install a dictator.

          Oh wait this Meta and not the Banana companies

            • Possibly linux
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              12 months ago

              No they don’t

              They pray on children but it wouldn’t make sense for them to try to create a dictatorship. It is much more effective to just tell the people what to believe and who to vote for.