Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws(www.reuters.com)

posted 4 months ago

Nigeria fined Meta Platforms $220 million, its competition watchdog said on Friday, after investigations showed data-sharing on social platforms violated local consumer, data protection and privacy laws.

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randoot@lemmy.world

9 points

4 months ago

There’s no way they make enough from Nigeria to warrant paying that fine. They’ll just threaten to close shop there and the government will just drop the fine.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world

3 points

4 months ago

Drop the fine after …donating(?)… To an official in charge of dropping the fine.

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randoot@lemmy.world

4 points

4 months ago

True. Although it’s Facebook. They could just tweak the algo in favor of the opposition candidate.

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip

2 points

4 months ago

Or overthrow the government and install a dictator.

Oh wait this Meta and not the Banana companies

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Match!!@pawb.social

1 point

4 months ago

No, no, Meta does it too

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip

1 point

4 months ago

No they don’t

They pray on children but it wouldn’t make sense for them to try to create a dictatorship. It is much more effective to just tell the people what to believe and who to vote for.

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