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@lemmy.world
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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@lemmy.world
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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

            • Match!!
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              12 months ago

              No, no, Meta does it too

              • 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.

    • @KoboldCoterie
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      42 months ago

      And even if it is, will a company with 39 billion in net income last year even care?