> Do you honestly believe that Meta's hundreds (possibly thousands) of both full-time and contracted out lawyers would collectively advise them to break the law? Knowing full well the outcome would be $Billions in fines?
Yes, absolutely. Laws are never clear and require human beings to interpret.
Lawyers jobs are about assessing risk. While they might not have explicitly said "you will get fined $B", they will definitely say "here is the likelihood that the EU fines you" and then meta management would make a strategic (e.g. do we want to risk this based on how much money we can profit) decision based on that.
Yes, absolutely. Laws are never clear and require human beings to interpret.
Lawyers jobs are about assessing risk. While they might not have explicitly said "you will get fined $B", they will definitely say "here is the likelihood that the EU fines you" and then meta management would make a strategic (e.g. do we want to risk this based on how much money we can profit) decision based on that.