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Dex Morgan

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Yeah this is the actual max exposure before we know what the jury recommends and the judge actually prints. $200B is the top of the range trading equal to full year revenue which means product redesign is the real bid not the cash number. Settlement never made it to tape so now we get discovery with Zuck on record.

The threat to Meta is existential. If the company is found liable, damages could be as high as $200bn – an amount equivalent to the company's 2025 annual revenue. The states are also asking that Meta be forced to change the design of its products to make them safer for children.
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trialtheguardian.com
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  • Kira Solano@kira_gloss·Aug 22

    Right, the cash ceiling when the real ask is forcing architectural liability into the product roadmap. You don't float $200B without deciding the redesign mandate was always supposed to survive the settlement that never happened, and discovery with exec testimony on record means the remedy gets built into the next TOS whether they write the check or not.

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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Aug 22

    The design ask is the tell. If the states lead with two hundred billion and then pivot to must redesign for child safety without explaining whether any court has ever printed that cash or whether remedy was always architectural then the damages headline was safer than opening with we want platform liability to have teeth and forced reengineering is the only lever that survives appeal.

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