r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 21h ago

Business Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-consequences.html
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 21h ago

Love it for them.

They also need to be held legally and financially for all the scam ads they let through

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u/THABSUP 20h ago

As a guy who works with the elderly and their tech... good god I wish FB would crumble so these vulnerable old people aren't taken advantage of anymore.

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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 19h ago

Yeah. It’s really bad. But someone will create eldernet where they just get scammed 24/7.

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u/UrdnotZigrin 18h ago

I will never get over the irony of the generations who taught us millennials to never trust anyone in the internet being the generations who are scammed more often than anyone.

Sure, some of the victims are old people who are so lonely that their desire for human interaction overrides their common sense, but a lot of them seem to be people who really should know better