Fuck shareholders, fuck META and fuck Zuggi Boggie. Fuck everyone involved.
Have a nice day :)
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$8 billion lawsuit
They want Mr Zuckerberg and his co-defendants to reimburse the company for more than $US8 billion ($12.2 billion) in fines and other costs Meta paid following the controversy.
So… a $12.2 billion lawsuit, then?
12.2 billion Australian Dollaridoos
Why is every sentence in its own paragraph??
That’s… pretty common for news sources?
I know, my question was not directly why its in this news this way. Its a more general question by me. I don’t get it. Lot of personal blogs do this too, BTW. In my opinion this is “wrong”. A paragraph should consists multiple sentences, that contain a single thought process or something else to group. Its like in programming code to do every single statement a blank line in between. Instead an idea should be grouped together into a block. Just an analogy with code. /My Opinion
My believe is, they want intentionally make the post look bigger. Instead 3 or 4 paragraphs (which would be the entire article in this case) they spread it out like this. So you have to scroll and see more ads and links and they have more possibilities to put more ads and links in between every paragraph. /My Conspiracy
Edit: Maybe there is something else. Lot of people read news articles on smartphones. And text would wrap around very quickly and look longer than they are. So maybe using more paragraphs gives more room between each sentence. As I am not reading much on smartphones, can’t judge this. But I still don’t like this. /My Edit
The short paragraphs thing predates smartphones and the collapse of print newspapers (here’s a paper from 1996 that does it), so fwiw I don’t think it’s that. I assume it’s some sort of stylistic / presentation thing that’s just normalized in news reporting. Maybe it’s an outdated holdover from print media somehow (where presumably more spacing = more expensive, so it presumably wasn’t a financial motivation) but I think orgs would’ve moved on by now if it was purely done for unnecessary legacy reasons.
Your news sources are not the same as mine
Nonetheless, it’s pretty common for news sources.
E.g.:
- Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/minot-city-north-dakota-ground-squirrels-dde22d2fa10140191a168687a5aa4daa
- Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/intels-new-ceo-plots-overhaul-manufacturing-ai-operations-2025-03-17/
- ABC (Australia) you already saw
- BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwqewyrw57o
- CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/carney-first-nations-summit-c5-1.7586758
- Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/europe-assumes-financial-burden-of-ukraine-war-alarming-russia
All use this style of paragraphs. It’s not universal but I’m surprised that it’s surprising anybody!
Wow, I never noticed it!
I am making a list of all the places I will spend my $0.42 settlement.
