via Kate Cox, come this well-crafted piece at Ars Technica, detailing new defensive machinations undertaken by Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) attorney's and (as a matter of course) Mark Zuckerberg)...

"Facebook's $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission this summer smashed records: the FTC had never before fined any company such a hefty amount. But even though critics immediately lambasted the deal as a comparative slap on the wrist for Facebook, which earned about $56 billion in revenue in 2018, newly released documents show that the company was working hard to avoid any penalty at all—and its arguments then are just a prelude to defenses it may mount now, as dozens of state, federal, and international probes pile up around it." - via Kate Cox, comes this superlative piece at Ars Technica