Big tech fines in 2023 totalled $3bn for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic.
Here's a breakdown of long it took them to pay off their respective fines:
🔎 Google: $941 million – 1 day 4 hours
📦 Amazon: $111.7 million – 2 hours
👓 Meta: $1.72 billion – 5 days 13 hours
🍏 Apple: $186.4 million – 4 hours
🪟 Microsoft: $84 million – 3.5 hours
🧵 2 / 3
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