[lokar]

Appearing to try to comply, responding promptly to questions, etc means a lot to governments. While meta may not moderate well, they do obviously try, and they cooperate with requests (they reply, meet, etc)

[627467]

Exactly and spending all that money on all that. As long as the extortion racket is paid you can operate under theatrics. Regulatory moat anyone?

[holoduke]

Ah come on. Plenty examples of misbehavior of Meta. Especially outside of the US.

[lokar]

Governments get upset when you break the law

They get really upset when you also stonewall them