Meta (Facebook) Just Ordered to Pay $35 Million in Fines!

 Meta (Facebook) Just Ordered to Pay $35 Million in Fines!

Al Ritter 

Back in 2018, the then Facebook failed to disclose campaign finance requirements to the State of Washington. There was a quick settlement of $238,000 and Facebook put out a statement that no longer would they accept ads for campaign ads until they further investigated the new regulations.

Even that statement was False as the regulations had been in place for years.

But their statement wasn’t true, in fact they never stopped accepting campaign ads. The Washington State AG once again demanded their records this year in the hopes that Facebook would finally become transparent. It took months to obtain those records and once received the AG was astounded that a large majority of the records had be redacted.

This forced the AG to file suit against Meta. Unfortunately for Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, and his high priced legal team the judgment didn’t come down in their favor. The judge saw this latest attempt to try to gut state campaign finance law as an affront to the entire legal system.

There were 822 violations that were found, each of which carried a fine of $30,000, but the Judge had final say as to what that fine would be and he awarded the state 3 times the fine amount which came to $24.66 million. To add insult to injury he also awarded the state their legal fees of $10.5 million, bringing the grand total to $35.1 million.

This is the largest fine to date for campaign finance violations EVER awarded in this country.

Maybe Mark Zuckerberg has finally had the smug look slapped off his arrogant face.

I’m sure his stockholders will be so happy.

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