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I suppose it's better than nothing, but Meta's market cap is 310$Billion, so it could pay that fine one hundred times over and still be worth well over 200$Billion—which would still make it more valuable than Shell, McDonalds, Toyota, or Nike.
Until these companies have t pay fines that would make every single member of their C-suite sit down and cry for days, these sorts of things are just going to be the cost of doing business. (Specifically, the business of mishandling private user data.)
They got away with it >

It was likely already in the budget from the beginning! Just business expenses. >

I think to truly understand how little they were fined, we should do a skit on the sub Reddit DataIsBeautiful showing how much an average person in America is charged for common things like speeding tickets and similar things, as a % of their yearly earnings.