[samwillis]

In the background to all this do note that the "number 2" executive at Meta is a former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg [0].

Meta see the regulatory situation in the EU and UK as a potentially existential risk. They know what they are doing is bad and lobbying is their number one tactic. They are at the "cigarette company" level of trying to prevent regulation of a business model that is ultimately at risk of being legislated out of existence.

0: https://about.meta.com/media-gallery/executives/

[fulafel]

Second time at the helm reluctantly exiting the EU it seems.

[Macha]

Nah, he was dropped a year before the brexit referendum as the Conservatives won enough seats they didn't need the lib dems in coalition with them.