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~50% of 2018 revenue, which is when the CA scandal was happening.

But they grew much bigger still thanks to illegal tacticts. So the very fact that it's a sizable portion of 2018's revenue but not of today's revenue shows how incitated they are to keep going the same path.

What illegal tactics do you believe they used?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

> But they grew much bigger still thanks to illegal tacticts.

This is just not a claim that was before the court and not grounds to assess damages on.

It's also the equivalent of:

- 16% of New Mexico's GDP

- ~200% of New Mexico's annual budget

- $29,620 per household in New Mexico

Absolutely bananas.

You mean 200B?

meta makes $1.4B/week in net profit, so that's about 4 months of net profits

And kids got fined 1/2M for downloading a few mp3s...

This is just for new mexico, a relatively small state in a single country facebook operates in. It's probably a solid decade worth of profit in that state. Because their privacy policy that no one reads wasn't clear enough.

lol that was a fun typo. Fixed :)