Spanish legacy media companies in Spain have scored a victory against social media giant Meta after a Madrid-based court ordered that it must pay news outlets nearly half a billion euros in damages.

Meta “had exercised an unfair market advantage by extracting personal data of internet users in violation of European law and using it to create more effective advertising”.

That’s one helluva law.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    This money should be paid to the public for being targeted with illegal privacy practices.

    So the public should sue them. This is not the court deciding where the money should go. Media companies sued for their share, the public can sue to get their.