Four states are suing Meta for $1.4 trillion.
That is one trillion four hundred billion dollars.
Meta’s entire market cap is $1.5 trillion.
So they are asking for 93 percent of the company’s existence.
The math is simple. Number of teenagers exposed to addictive design times the maximum fine per violation under state law.
Millions of teenagers times thousands of dollars per violation.
Equals one trillion four hundred billion.
Meta said no case in history has ever ordered a penalty that large.
They are correct.
No company has ever deliberately engineered a product specifically to addict children then lied about it at scale until Meta.
New Mexico went to trial first.
Jury found Meta liable.
Ordered $375 million in damages.
The judge let the bigger case proceed.
Now four states are asking for 3,733 times that amount.
Meta’s executives told investors to expect material losses on youth scrutiny.
They did not mention $1.4 trillion in the filing.
If the jury sides with the states even partially.
Meta cannot survive the verdict.
Capital raises. Asset sales. Restructuring.
All of it.
The company that said social media addiction is not a real psychiatric condition.
Is about to find out if a jury disagrees.
The trial is August 18.
Spotted a woman inside Trader Joe’s wearing a mask.
Stepped outside to load my groceries and there she was, mask on in 100° weather with nobody else around.
At this point, it has to be a mental illness, would you agree?
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@SenatorBanks If more 13 year olds knew about sex they could stay clear of adults who are trying to sexually abuse them. I'm guessing that's why Republicans are against it.
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