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.

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    4 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.

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        4 months ago

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

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          4 months ago

          Or overthrow the government and install a dictator.

          Oh wait this Meta and not the Banana companies

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              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.