piola666 Mark Zuckerberg would probably appreciate an easy legal win. Everybody seems to be filing some sort of legal thing against Facebook’s corporate parent, Meta Platforms ( NASDAQ: META ) ( NEOE: META:CA ) . Lawsuits, or even Congressional/Regulatory investigations are, sad to say, routine.
And it’s not just META. If I see a company for which the 10-K discloses nothing like that, I’d worry. Is it actually doing business? Does anybody care? But META is unusual.
The “Legal and Related Matters” section of its 2023 10-K is a sight to behold. It’s a 3,493 word monstrosity. Its Flesch Reading Ease score is a terrible 17.
8. I sympathize. But I decided not to make Zuckerberg’s legal life easy.
I was tempted to screen-capture, crop and post a reproduction of my Facebook cover image. It wonderfully sums up my long-term feelings about the site. But I’ll refrain.
I don’t feel like hunting down and digging through the site’s Terms of Use. And I won’t expose Seeking Alpha or myself to a losing infringement case. Instead, here’s verbal description.
.. It’s a drawing of a sly kid urinating on a Facebook logo.
My feed had endless witticisms from an ex-colleague who was never as cool as he thought he was. I saw extreme political hate spewed by a cousin I regretted seeing this way. My childhood best friend thought the world needed pictures featuring the step by step by step by step.
.. renovation of his kitchen.
(And sadder still, many others egged him on by liking .
