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Re:FTC Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion by damq on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:59PM (#20424433)
1.81% is not a massive spike.

Also, "breaking democracy" is quite dramatic. Democracy isn't broken just because your candidate lost.

Re:FTC Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion by MegaButts on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:00PM (#20424446)
The spike is significantly greater than the fine (of course the expected fine was likely already priced beforehand and the unexpectedly low fine has reassured investors that Facebook is back to business as usual).
Re:FTC Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion by notinversed on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:00PM (#20424447)
If you're a director that's a new Maserati. Who's my candidate? I have never voted, not sure what you're trying to project on to me.

They broke Democracy. That's putting it nicely, I think, and being charitable to Facebook when you could use much more malicious phrasing based on their actions.

They broke Democracy. Get used to that phrase, you're gonna be hearing it a lot in the coming years, because they broke Democracy.