Corporate lawyering is basically about finding ways to break the spirit or letter of the law without being punished for it. Or to limit the punishment so that it is exceeded by the likely profit of breaking the law. So yes, Meta's thousands of lawyers probably recommend breaking (or "interpreting" certain laws in certain ways all the time because the cost/benefit analysis makes it worth it. And sometimes they miscalculate and the fines are larger than the profit or result in some unexpected political blowback. See also Apple's approach to its App Store and payment policies.
EU to US data transfers were questionable for years, until a whole string of rulings through several levels of national and E.U. courts made clear that they weren't under some circumstances. Other companies have found ways to deal with that, Meta obviously could have, but chose not to (because profits). One obvious way would be for Meta to save E.U. customer data on E.U. servers exclusively, splitting the social graph (and advertising shadow profiles, which likely is what they really care about). Good faith does not enter into the equation, would be my guess.
EU to US data transfers were questionable for years, until a whole string of rulings through several levels of national and E.U. courts made clear that they weren't under some circumstances. Other companies have found ways to deal with that, Meta obviously could have, but chose not to (because profits). One obvious way would be for Meta to save E.U. customer data on E.U. servers exclusively, splitting the social graph (and advertising shadow profiles, which likely is what they really care about). Good faith does not enter into the equation, would be my guess.