Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/26/facebook-found-liable-as-tiktok-settles-for-100m-over-user-safety

Facebook found liable in New Mexico for deceptive actions; TikTok settles $100m lawsuit with Alabama over safety claims.

I have difficulties parsing modern headlines, so here's the first praragraph that explains what the above actually means:

Two technology giants have faced legal setbacks involving cases over misleading consumers about user safety and privacy in the United States, with Facebook found liable by a jury and TikTok agreeing to pay a $100m settlement.

Of course this isn't the first round for either corpo.

And here's another recurring theme: the fines (or settlements in this case) are never proportional to the gains that are a direct result of the thing being fined.

Fines like this are the cost of doing business, not a punishment for doing the wrong thing. Its meant to placate people sense of justice but not do anything.

Settlement for wronging millions should not even be an option. Shame on this prosecutor, and any legal system that even remotely pretends that such drivel is "justice".

Sorry about the headline, I edited it from the original to make it better but it's still marginal 😝

Not your fault, you just shared an article.

It's a gripe I have with 99% of articles these days.