I don't know who they have to pay it to but that's only for New Mexico, which has about two million people which works out to about $187.50 per person.

That's pretty cheap when it comes to deception.

The eyes of Texas should be upon this, which is 15X the size and should not settle for less than $1000 per person, where deceptive trade practice is much more serious than other places.

Now that would set a $30 billion example which may not be enough of a deterrent either.

But there are probably plenty of people for whom a $5000 one-time payment might not come close to being fair compensation for what's already happened, especially with Meta allowed to continue as an ongoing concern, that's got to be psychologically harmful.

To really fix it each state would have to follow "suit" while greatly upping the ante so there's at least hundreds of billions at stake.

Meta can afford it and who else is responsible for so much widespread sneaky deception at this scale for so long ?