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by Will_Do 2306 days ago
My guess: Facebook makes an enormous percentage[^1] of its revenue in the US compared to Amazon/Apple. This might make it legally more tricky to argue that its Irish profits are not actually US profits.

Also the IRS would definitely go after Amazon instead if it were politically motivated.

[1]: Can't find absolute numbers but US users have 10x revenue per user: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
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naringas 2306 days ago
> Also the IRS would definitely go after Amazon instead if it were politically motivated.

amazon is running computing services for the government, which makes me doubt it.

And what about Google?

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res0nat0r 2306 days ago
Amazon is suing the government right now because of the abrupt cancellation of a 10 BILLION dollar government cloud contract that the likely were on the way to winning, that the Trump administration intervened with likely because they don't like the Washington Post (owned by Bezos) reporting of Trump's corruption.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-13...

Also if FB is being picked out of all large companies by the Trump administration for something like this which most all large companies have been doing for decades it's easy to believe it may be to get FB back in line with the fake narrative of "stop silencing conservatives on FB" which is a narrative that doesn't exist, but has been pushed by Trump admin folks online for a while now.

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