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Jury based punitive damages are constantly overturned because they are not legal experts and don't understand anything.

Anyone who thinks Meta will actually pay this amount have no clue what they're talking about.

The article says this was a statutory $5k per infringement * 43M counts, then reduced by the court. This was not a jury award.

They are also not punitive damages, and Meta was also found to be willful.