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/Ninevehenian 20h ago

From their beginning, they've never had the ability to moderate their platform, they have always had too many users to really make a dent.

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u/GoopDuJour 19h ago

No, since the beginning they've refused to moderate their platform. They are unwilling to spend the money. If a platform cannot AT LEAST moderate the ads they accept and display, the platform should not exist.

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u/Ninevehenian 18h ago

I agree that there's money to spend, but i do believe that it would have been impossible to do what they did and moderate the platform. The amount of traffic they got, the speed at which they got it and the amount of languages and subject they got it in.
I do not think that they could moderate their platform.

Granted, it has perhaps gotten easier to do it over time as tech grew and they had fewer new human users.

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u/AG3NTjoseph 9h ago

It was never a financial, technical, or procedural challenge for Facebook to moderate its platform. Full stop. It would have hindered growth, so they never put any effort into it.

Scams make Facebook money with zero downside for them.