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Well, not much is changing after these kind of fines.

> A quick Google indicates Facebook may end up paying 1.6 billion to the EU.

A slap on the wrist, Facebook had 8 billion in revenue Q1 2019. But first let's see if they actually end up paying that.

It's just like how banks change after receiving massive fines for their role in the crisis, money laundering, transacting to sanctioned countries (they don't really, aside from some minor internal processes to prevent the exact same thing from happening again).



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