FINE/CRIMES SETTLEMENTS OF
AI, SOCIAL MEDIA AND BIGTECH

If AI, social media and Big Tech can't generate increased earnings through [non-financial] innovation, how can they generate earnings to push up their stock price? With the oldest 'innovation' in the books - commit crimes. Outright crimes, no admission of guilt crimes, market manipulations, monopolies, bribes, etc. What follows is a partial list of fines, settlements, judgments, managed-losses and other thefts of money from interested parties - such as shareholders.
Editorial note: some of the articles below are locked, accessible only to paid subscribers of the respective publication. Titles of the news articles are often edited to make them more informative or more honest. Bracketed comments [] are our glosses to headines. Bracketed comments [KM: ] are comments inserted when Karl and Groucho Marx temporarily intrudes on our thoughts, especially with their catch phrase: ... the rich get richer .... Bracketed comments [JC: ] temporarily intrudes on our thoughts to remind people what he actually said (which is much different from Christianity).

• $300,000,000,000 - Dan Schulman, the CEO of PayPal, resigns after leading the company for nine years, during with the company's market value lost nearly $300 billion
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 21 August 2023

• $200,000,000,000+/year - In 2020, unsuccessful IT projects cost US companies $260 billion, while software problems in legacy systems cost businesses $520 billion, and software failures in operational systems created a loss of $1.56 trillion in corporate coffers - a total of $2.1 trillion caused by the incompetence of hugely rich high-tech companies that can't innovate better security and quality
  - TechRepublic, 11 January 2021

• $150,000,000,000+/year - Welcome to the 'annoyance economy': people in the USA are paying over $165 billion/year as companies waste their time to drive revenue. Junk fees, customer service on-hold times, healthcare administrative hassles, onerous cancellation policies, forced subscriptions, AI chatbots [KM: misanthropic sociopaths, congrats!]
  - Fortune (@ YF), 09 February 2026

• [INTEL]
  $150,000,000,000 - Ex-CEO Pete Gelsinger was hired to save Intel. Instead, he destroyed $150 billion in value. After his rescue strategy failed, the board lost confidence in him. How does this iconic American company survive?
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 07 December 2024

• [SOFTBANK]
  $140,000,000,000 - Softbank's Masayoshi Son wasted $140 billion of investors' monies on AI with little to show for it. He said that he would make Softbank "the investment company for the AI revolution" but he missed out on the most recent frenzy.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 05 July 2023

• [SAMSUNG]
  $126,000,000,000 - How Samsung fell behind in the AI boom leading to a $126 billion wipeout. Samsung Electronics has fallen behind long-time rival SK Hynix in the area of high-bandwidth memory. Samsung is still awaiting Nvidia to approve its HBM for use, which could help the South Korean giant become competitive again, analysts said.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 07 November 2024

• $100,000,000,000+ - Even after spending $100 billion provided by investors, self-driving cars are going nowhere. We may have to wait decades for the technology to become reliable enough. Meanwhiles, revenues are barely worth millions of dollars a year.
  - BusinessWeek, 06 October 2022

• $100,000,000,000 - Telecom companies have wasted $100 billion of shareholder value in the last three years in launching 5G wireless technology. But they have been unable to persaude customers to make use of faster 5G, which apparently isn't too useful beyond videogaming and hasn't seem to useful to businesses. Might have researched that before wasting $100 billion.
  - Bloomberg Business Week, 03 March 2022

• $70,000,000,000+/year - A United Nations reorts states that electronic waste is growing 5-times faster than it can be recyclced, increase Big Tech profits by socialistically shifting waste disposal costs to taxpayers. While e-waste recycling has benefits estimated to include $23 billion of monetized value from avoided greenhouse gas emissions and $28 billion of recovered materials like gold, copper, and iron, it also comes at a cost -- $10 billion associated with e-waste treatment and $78 billion of externalized costs to people and the environment.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 March 2024

• [FACEBOOK]
  $70,000,000,000 - Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook for the metaverse. Four years and $70 billion in losses of shareholder valye later, Zuckerberg [is admitting failure].
  - Fortune, 04 December 2025

• [ATT]
  $47,000,000,000 - Why the $109 billion merger of ATT and Time Warner in 2018 could be the most money-losing Big Tech deal ever. ATT shareholders lost $47 billion when the merged company was recently broken up. None of the executives went to jail.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 November 2022

• [FACEBOOK]
  $46,500,000,000 - Facebook has lost $46.5 billion of shareholder money in the last four years trying to make its virtual reality metaverse, Rality labs, of any value to anyone
  - Zero Hedge, 26 October 2023

• [SOFTBANK]
  $32,000,000,000 SoftBank Vision Fund yearly loss widens to $32 billion on reductions to the valuations of overly fraudulently valued startups
  - TechCrunch, 12 May 2023

• $20,000,000,000 - In two years, Cathie Woods so incompetently managed her tech investment fund, the ARK Innovation ETF, that her clients lost over $20 billion
  - Zero Hedge, 22 March 2023

• [GROUPON]
  $17,640,000,000 - From its IPO in November 2012, Groupon has lost 99% of its market cap, losing $17.7 billion of shareholder value through mismanagement
  - TechCrunch, 19 March 2023

• $16,000,000,000/year - The $16 billion question (10% of its revenue due to scam ads) haunting the extremely rich Mark Zuckerberg. A new study finds the extremely rich Facebook hosts the vast majority of social media scams, and critics argue it is because the extremely rich Facebook and extremely rich Zuckerberg prioritize profit over protecting users. [KM: yes, the woefully rich must get richer - fuck humanity.] Experts say that Zuckerberg and Facebook only ban advertisers when its systems detect a 95% probability of fraud, while charging higher ad fees to suspicious buyers, a system critics describe "pay to play/scam"/.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 December 2025

• $16,000,000,000 - How the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank led to a $16 billion taxpayer-funded gift for one bank. First Citizens got $16 billion (and arguably much more) in assets for free.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 March 2023

• [SPACEX]
  $13,000,000,000 - Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starship rocket was doomed from the beginning. Had Musk used the standard aerospace process of iterative design, it would have exposed that making a fully reusable rocket with even a barely usable payload to space is impossible. Musk knows this: Falcon 9 was initially meant to be fully reusable until he discovered that the useful payload would be zero. That was his iterative design telling him Starship was impossible over a decade ago, as just making the rocket larger will not solve this! But Musk continued trying to build his rocket. Why? Well, through some transparent corruption and cronyism, he could secure multi-billion-dollar contracts from NASA to build this mythical rocket. But, by going for full-scale testing, he could not only hide the inherent flaws of Starship long enough for the cash to be handed over to him but also put NASA in a position of the sunk cost fallacy. NASA has given SpaceX so much money, and their plans rely so heavily on Starship that they can't walk away; they might as well keep shoving money at the beast. This is why Starship, in my opinion, is just one massive con, a fraudulent socialist subsidy wasting taxpayers dollars to make Mush richer. As of February 2025, Musk/SpaceX has received $13 billion from NASA.
  - Will Lockett, 11 March 2025

• [TWITTER/X]
  $11,000,000,000 - Elon Musk sells his Twitter/X to his xAI company for a $11 billion loss. Musk had bought Twitter/X for $44 billion three years ago, but at one point Musk had destroyed 80% of the value of Twitter/X, and in December 2024 Twitter/X was only worth about 30% of what Musk paid for it.
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 29 March 2025

• [AMAZON]
  $10,000,000,000+ - Amazon Alexa is a "colossal failure", a colossal waste of shareholders' dollars, with Amazon's Alexa division most likely losing $10 billion this year
  - Ars Technica, 21 November 2022

• $10,000,000,000+ - What we have lost playing the lottery. The games are a bonanza for the companies that states hire to administer them. But what about the rest of us? The lottery is vastly less profitable than its proponents make it out to be, a deception that has come at the expense of public coffers and public services. On the other hand, it is so popular that it is both extremely lucrative for the private companies that make and sell tickets and financially crippling for its most dedicated players.
  - New Yorker, 17 October 2022

• [INTEL]
  $8,500,000,000 - After receiving $8.5 billion in [KM: socialist] subsidies, Intel is so [incompetently] managed that it is firing 15,000 people to try to re-invent itself, mismanagement that private sector investors knew about for not wanting to so [KM: socialistically] subsidize Intel, forcing the taxpayers to lose $8.5 billion.
  - Wired, 01 August 2024

• $6,600,000,000 - Just Eat Takeaway, the biggest meal delivery company in Europe, in four years loses $6.6 billion of shareholder value, after buying GrubHub for $7.3 billion in 2020 (during the height of Covid) and sellling it now for $650 million
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 13 November 2024

• $5,900,000,000 - PlayStation hit by a $5.9 billion lawsuit for "ripping people off" on digital games by charging a 30 percent commission fee on all digital purchases made through the UK PlayStation Store.
  - Kotaku, 22 August 2022

• [SUPERMICRO]
  $5,000,000,000 - Shares of Super Micro plummet 25% after employees charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to Zhōngguó. Shareholders lost $5 billion in value.
  - CNBC, 20 March 2026

• [HP]
  $4,000,000,000 - HP is seeking as much as $4 billion from Autonomy's former bosses following a London judge's finding that they fraudulently boosted the value of Autonomy before its sale. Founder Mike Lynch was found to have inflated Autonomy's revenue alongside his chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain and induced HP to buy the firm for $11 billion, according to a London civil judgment in 2022.
  - Bloomberg, 12 February 2024

• $3,800,000,000 - Authorities in India may issue notices soon to more major IT services firms in an investigation of alleged tax evasion related to work done by their overseas offices, a government source said on Thursday, a day after Infosys was slapped with a $4 billion tax demand. In serving its highest-ever tax demand on Infosys, the government accused India's second-largest tech services company of evading taxes and sought 320 billion rupees ($3.8 billion), or almost all its revenue for the quarter ended June 30.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 01 August 2024

• $3,500,000,000 - Vista Equity Partners has written off the entire equity value of its investment in tech learning platform Pluralsight, three years after taking it private for $3.5 billion. The usual business scam of loading a buyout with debt to flow the money to the private equity schemers, here $1.3 billion of debt issued at low interest rates, became unserviceable when interest rates rose.
  - Axios, 31 May 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $3,450,000,000 - Google was fined 2.95-billion euros ($3.45 billion) by EU antitrust regulators on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business. This action by the European Commission was triggered by a complaint from the European Publishers Council.
  - Yahoo Finance, 05 September 2025

• [FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, MICROSOFT]
  $3,000,000,000 - Facebook, Google and Microsoft "avoid paying $3 billion in taxes in poorer nations", with the highest lack of payments in India, Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh
  - BBC, 26 October 2020

• [ALIBABA]
  $2,800,000,000 - Alibaba hit with a record $2.8 billion antitrust fine in Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 09 April 2021

• [GOOGLE]
  $2,650,000,000 - The top court in the EU, the European Court of Justice, upheld a 2.4 billion euro ($2.65 billion) fine imposed on Google for abusing its dominant position by favoring its own shopping comparison service
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 September 2024

• [AMAZON]
  $2,500,000,000 - Amazon to pay a historically high $2.5 billion settlement for allegedly tricking customers into easily signing up for Amazon Prime, but making it hard to cancel. The settlement affects 35 million customers. [None of the white executives involved in this retail crime will go to jail.]
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 25 September 2025

• [TWITTER]
  ~$2,500,000,000 - A California jury largely sided with Twitter shareholders who accused billionaire Elon Musk of making false statements and intentionally driving down the social media company's stock ahead of his $44 billion acquisition in 2022. The damages awarded by the jury are expected to amount to around $2.5 billion, depending on the number of people who submit claims to be part of the class.
  - CNN, 21 March 2026

• $2,000,000,000+ - Shares of Okta are down 8% after the software security company disclosed that an unidentified hacking group had accessed client files through a support system. More than $2 billion in market capitalization has been lost due to corporate mismanagement since the company acknowledged the hack Friday.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 23 October 2023

• [APPLE]
  $2,000,000,000 - The European Union has fined Apple $2 billion for preventing Spotify and other music streaming services from informing users of payment options outside its App Store. Apple will appeal, as it doesn't want any government interferring with its authoritarian practices.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 04 March 2024

• [APPLE]
  $2,000,000,000+ Since 2013, AT&T has quietly bilked customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars with a bogus 'administrative fee', a fee it more than doubled to $1.99 a month in 2018. For a few years there, a California class-action lawsuit made it seem like AT&T might finally get taken to task. But this week, lawyers for both sides told a judge would settle for just $14 -- meaning customers may get less than 10 percent of what they paid AT&T, while AT&T gets to keep on charging them.
  - The Verge, 12 May 2022

• $2,000,000,000 - Ai company Pegasystems is ordered by a jury to pay $2 billion for stealing the trade secrets of its chief competitor, Appian
  - Motley Fool, 13 June 2022

• [EBAY]
  upto $2,000,000,000 - The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against eBay for selling illegal devices that defeat pollution controls on motor vehicles, eBay could be on the hook for $2 billion in fines -- $5,580 for each offense.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 October 2023

• [IBM]
  $1,600,000,000 - IBM must pay $1.6 billion to BMC Software for swapping in IBM software while servicing their mutual client, ATT.
  - Bloomberg, 31 May 2022

• [ANTHROPIC]
  $1,500,000,000 - [mis]Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle a action lawsuit with a group of authors for massive criminal copyright infringement of their works
  - Comcast's CNBC, 05 September 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $1,400,000,000 - Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a data privacy lawsuit. The state sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting the private data of users.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 May 2025

• [FACEBOOK]
  $1,400,000,000 - Facebook has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state's lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent
  - Thomson's Reuters, 30 July 2024

• [FACEBOOK]
  $1,300,000,000 - Facebook is fined $1.3 billion in the European Union and given a deadline to stop shipping users' data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American security services.
  - Zero Hedge, 22 May 2023

• [AMAZON]
  $1,300,000,000 - Italy's competition authority announced that it had fined Amazon 1.129 billion euros, or roughly $1.3 billion. According to the antitrust watchdog, Amazon has abused its dominant market position and pushed third-party sellers to use the company's logistics "Fulfillment by Amazon" system.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 December 2021

• $1,200,000,000 - The bankruptcy of a hot startup in Bharat, Think & Learn Pvt, will see banks lose upwards of $1.2 billion loaned to the online education scam
  - Bloomberg, 16 January 2025

• $1,200,000,000 - Zhōngguó fines Didi $1.2 billion for violation data protection laws for their customers. Regulators said Didi had illegally collected about 12 million screenshots from users' phones and excessively amassed personal data, including millions of addresses, phone numbers and face images. The statement noted that driver identifications were stored in plain text - not encrypted - and that the company failed to clearly notify users about analyses done on their travel records.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 July 2022

• [UBER]
  $1,100,000,000 - Uber is closing its drug alcohol delivery service, Drizaly, three years after it wasted $1.1 billion to buy Drizly
  - BBC, 15 January 2024

• $1,000,000,000+ - Costs from the global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike could top $1 billion -- but who pays the bill is harder to understand, because licensing contracts protect Big Tech companies from the disasters they cause
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 22 July 2024

• $1,000,000,000/year - Many commercials continue to play on ad-supported streaming services after viewers turn off their television, new research shows, a problem that is causing an estimated theft of more than $1 billion a year for brands.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2022

• $1,000,000,000+ - Goldman Sachs loses over $1 billion of shareholder value, as it tries to sell of its failed takeover fintech lender, GreenSky
  - Zero Hedge, 23 June 2023

• [BLOCK]
  $1,000,000,000+ - Shares of Block drop 10% after short seller Hindenburg Research accused the company of "facilitating fraud", in a report titled: "Block: how inflated user metrics and 'frictionless' fraud facilitation enabled insiders to cash out over $1 billion."
  - Zero Hedge, 23 March 2023

• [TESLA]
  $1,000,000,000 - New York State built Elon Musk a $1 billion factory - [KM: socialism at its worst]. No surprise, "it was a bad deal". A new Tesla facility in Buffalo was supposed to house a huge solar-panel operation, but the [socialist] project has not turned out as planned.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 07 July 2023

• [DELL]
  $1,000,000,000 - Dell Technologies said it accepted a $1 billion settlement of a lawsuit accusing it of short-changing some shareholders in a controversial $23.9 billion transaction in 2018 that marked its return as a publicly traded company.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 16 November 2022

• $1,000,000,000 A jury rules that Cox Communications must pay $1 billion to record labels for harboring music pirates that infringed more than 10,000 music works - the jury holding an ISP liable for failing to kick a music pirate off its network [KM: the Napster criminal business model never dies]
  - The Verge, 19 December 2019

• [INTEL]
  $949,000,000 - A federal jury in Texas on Tuesday said Intel must pay VLSI Technology $948.8 million for infringing a VLSI patent for computer chips
  - Yahoo News, 15 November 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $900,000,000 - How Google's [authoritarian] "Smart City" in Toronto failed after wasting $900 million to gather huge amounts of data from the public to make their lives 'better' - which the public didn't want. Toronto has announced a new form of city planning - more trees and birds and bees and life, while collecting a lot less of [meaningless] data.
  - MIT Technology Review, 29 June 2022

• [AMAZON]
  $887,000,000 - Amazon.com has been fined 746 million euros, equivalent to $887 million, by a European Union privacy regulator for violations related to its advertising, by far the largest-ever fine under the EU's data-protection law.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 31 July 2021

• [FACEBOOK]
  $840,000,000 - The European Commission fined Facebook $840 million over abusive practices benefiting Facebook Marketplace. "The European Commission has fined Meta ... for breaching EU antitrust rules by tying its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network Facebook and by imposing unfair trading conditions on other online classified ads service providers.".
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 14 November 2024

• [TWITTER]
  $809,500,000 - Twitter to pay $809.5 million to settle a securities lawsuit, which alleged social-media company misled investors about user engagement in 2015
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 21 September 2021

• $787,500,000 - Fox Corporation settles its defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, and will pay Dominion for $787.5 million, avoiding trial, with Fox admitting that it lied about Dominion in its broadcasts
  - Thomson's Reuters, 18 April 2023

• [TESLA]
  $735,000,000 - Tesla directors (including billionaire Larry Ellison) will return $735 million to the company to settle claims they grossly overpaid themselves in one of the largest shareholder settlements of its kind, according to a Monday filing in a Delaware court.
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 18 July 2023

• [FACEBOOK]
  $725,000,000 - Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the social media giant gave third parties access to user data without their consent
  - Comcast's CNBC, 23 December 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $700,000,000 - California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a $700 million multistate settlement with Google resolving allegations that the company violated state and federal laws by monopolizing the Android smartphone application market.
  - OPB News, 18 December 2023

• [XIAOMI]
  $700,000,000+ - India has seized more than $700 million from Xiaomi, one of Zhōngguó's biggest tech companies, after accusing it of moving money out of the country illegally. The agency said Xiaomi India, acting on the instructions of its parent company, "had remitted foreign currency equivalent to [55.5 billion rupees, $726 million] to three foreign based entities which include one Xiaomi group entity in the guise of royalty."
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 02 May 2022

• $660,000,000 - Federal prosecutors demanded that Trevor Milton pay $660 million that he defrauded from investors in his electric vehicle company, and was sentenced to four years in jail. However [by bribing Christian Republicans] after donating/[bribing] nearly $2 million to Trump-allied political committees, Trump pardoned Milton, who will no longer have to repay the $660 million he stole.
  - ONYT, 19 February 2026

• [FACEBOOK]
  $650,000,000 - Judge approves $650 million settlement of Facebook privacy lawsuit linked to facial photo tagging. The suit claimed Facebook violated an Illinois law prohibiting collection of biometric data without consent.
  - Business Insider, 27 February 2022

• $632,000,000 - The French Competition Authority has fine a dozen home-appliance manufacturers (including LG, Miele, Smeg, Electrolux, SEB and Whirlpool) $632 million over concerns they fixed prices on retail products to weather competition from e-commerce platforms.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2024

• [AIRBNB]
  $621,000,000 - Airbnb is paying $621 million to settle its tax dispute with Italy. The fine was for unpaid short-term rental taxes for hosts using the platform between 2017 and 2021.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 December 2023

• [TIKTOK]
  $600,000,000 - TikTok is fined $600 million for sending data about its users in Europe to Zhōngguó. Investigators in Ireland said that TikTok did not protect the data of users in the European Union, improperly transferring some of it to Zhōngguó. TikTok said it would appeal.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 May 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $593,000,000 - France fines Google $593 million for not negotiating "in good faith" with news publishers. French officials said Google had ignored a 2020 order from French regulators to negotiate a licensing deal with publishers to use short blurbs from articles in search results. Google has two months to come up with fresh ideas for compensating news publishers or risks further fines of up 900,000, about $1.065 million, per day.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 July 2021

• [AMAZON]
  $582,000,000 - Amazon has agreed with Italy's tax collection agency to pay 510 million euros ($582 million) to settle a tax dispute
  - Reuters, 10 December 2025

• [APPLE]
  $570,000,000 - The European Union fines Apple $570 million and Facebook $228 million, both companies for violating the EU's digital competition law.
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 23 April 2025

• [APPLE]
  $539,000,000 - Apple will reportedly have to pay a $539 million fine due to an antitrust complaint filed by Spotify in the European Union. Spotify alleged that Apple policies prevent iPhone apps from telling users about cheaper alternatives to the music service of Apple. It is, admittedly, a meaningless fine for a company as rich as Apple.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 February 2024

• $533,000,000 - Food delivery platform Meituan was fined 3.44 billion yuan ($533.5 million), or 3 percent of its 2020 domestic revenue, for monopolist practices by the top market regulator in Zhōngguó on Friday. The company was also ordered to immediately stop illegal activities and give full refund of exclusive cooperation deposit of 1.29 billion yuan to contracted vendors.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 October 2021

• [AMAZON]
  $525,000,000 - A federal jury in the USA orders Amazon to pay $525 million for infringing three cloud technology patents owned by Kove
  - Bloomberg, 10 April 2024

• [SAMSUNG]
  $520,000,000 - Samsung has asked an Indian tribunal to quash a $520 million tax demand for allegedly misclassifying imports of networking gear, arguing officials were aware of the practice as India's Reliance imported the same component in a similar manner for years, documents show.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 04 May 2025

• $520,000,000 - Epic Games, the developer and publisher of the video game Fornite, will pay $520 million in fines to settle with the FTC over violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The FTC had alleged that Epic paired children and teens "with strangers", exposed them to "dangerous and psychologically traumatizing issues", and failed to introduce adequate parental control systems.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 December 2022

• [UBER, DOORDASH]
  $500,000,000 - Regulators in New York City say DoorDash and Uber Eats stolen $550 million in tips from delivery workers in New York City during the last two years. A report published by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection argues that food delivery app giants retaliated against minimum wage rules for delivery drivers that took effect in December 2023 by implementing "design tricks" that obscure opportunities to offer a tip in their mobile apps.
  - Gothamist, 13 January 2026

• $500,000,000 - In what is being described as a "breathtaking" act of financial fraud, global investment firm BlackRock's private-credit investing arm and several major lenders are now scrambling to recover more than $500 million lost in a loan fraud allegedly orchestrated by Indian-origin telecom executive Bankim Brahmbhatt. Brahmbhatt is accused of fabricating invoices and accounts receivable that were pledged as collateral for massive loans.
  - NDTV World, 31 October 2025

• [TESLA]
  $500,000,000 - Elon Musk set to pay $500 million to 6,000 workers fired in 2022 without severance after his Twitter takeover, to settle an ongoing lawsuit
  - The Independent, 21 August 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $500,000,000 - Google agreed to spend $500 million over 10 years to overhaul its compliance structure, to settle shareholder litigation accusing the search engine company of antitrust violations, settlement papers show
  - Thomson's Reuters, 02 June 2025

• $500,000,000 - 2U, once a giant in online education, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company, which had a valuation of more than $5 billion in 2018, is being taken private in a deal that will wipe out more than half of its $945 million debt.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 26 July 2024

• [APPLE]
  $500,000,000 - Apple Cmputer will pay $500 million to settle lawsuits over its slowing down of older iPhones to compel users to buy newer, more expensive models - the fine is $25 per affected device - an old IBM mainframe trick
  - The Verge, 02 March 2020

• $493,850,000 - A federal court in Texas orders SportsBay to pay $493,850,000 to DISH Network and Sling for copyright violations due to streaming sports broadcasts
  - Zero Hedge, 15 August 2023

• [APPLE]
  $490,000,000 - Apple agrees to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged Chief Executive Tim Cook defrauded shareholders by concealing falling demand for iPhones in Zhōngguó
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 15 March 2024

• [RIVIAN]
  $480,000,000 - Electric car companies Lucid and Rivian each - each - awarded their CEOs more than $400 million in pay in 2021 (including stock options), while each company lost over $4 billion, with Lucid's stock shares down 50% and Rivian's down 70%. Meanwhile real auto company executives were paid around $30 million in 2021.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 09 June 2022

• $469,000,000 - A jury orders Dish Network to pay $469 million to ClearPlay for infringing some ClearPlay streaming patents
  - Yahoo News, 20 October 2021

• [BOOKING.COM]
  

  $447,000,000 - Spain fines Booking.com $447 million over competition concerns, ruling that since at least early 2019, Booking.com set several unfair conditions that have not been the same for all hotels in Spain using the platform for their bookings.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 31 July 2024

• [SAMSUNG]
  $445,500,000 - A federal jury in Marshall, Texas found on Friday that Samsung Electronics owes patent owner Collision Communications nearly $445.5 million in damages for infringing on patents related to 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi communications standards
  - Thomson's Reuters, 10 October 2025

• [MICRON]
  $445,000,000 - Semiconductor chip maker Micron Technology owes computer-memory company Netlist $445 million in damages for violating Netlist's patent rights in memory-module technology for high-performance computing, a jury said on Thursday.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 23 May 2024

• $445,000,000 Zume, a SoftBank-backed pizza startup using robots that the world didn't need, shuts down after raising and losing $445 million in venture capital funding
  - Zero Hedge, 12 June 2023

• [GOOGLE]
  $425,000,000 - Google must pay $425 million in a class action lawsuit over invading the privacy of its users
  - MNYP, 03 September 2025

• [MICROSOFT]
  $425,000,000 - Microsoft is expected to take a charge of about $425 million in the current quarter for a potential fine from an Irish regulator over alleged privacy violations at its unit LinkedIn.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 1 June 2023

• [ALIBABA]
  $420,000,000 - The People's Bank of Zhōngguó fines Alipay $420 million for unfair market practices
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 10 July 2023

• [MICROSOFT]
  $414,000,000 - European regulators fine Microsoft $414 million for illegally forcing users to effectively accept personalized ads. The judgment has the potential to require Meta to make costly changes to its advertising-based business in the European Union, one of its largest markets.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 January 2023

• $410,000,000 - The People's Bank of Zhōngguó fines Tenpay $410 million for unfair market practices
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 10 July 2023

• $400,000,000+ - The collapse of a $1.5 billion AI unicorn in Bharat. There was no AI technology - it was just a group of programmers in Bharat writing code supposedly from an AI system. The scam lasted for 8 years. Over $400 million was raised, none left as the company files for bankruptcy.
  - Binance, 25 May 2025

• $400,000,000 - A federal district court judge in the USA rules that thousands of people in Tennessee were illegally denied Medicaid and other benefits due to programming and data errors in an algorithmic system the state uses to determine eligibility for low-income residents and people with disabilities. The TennCare Connect system -- built by Deloitte and other contractors for more than $400 million -- has major problems. The system often does not load the appropriate data, assigns beneficiaries to the wrong households, and makes incorrect eligibility determinations.
  - GizModo, 29 August 2024

• [INTEL]
  $400,000,000 - The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of about $400 million on chipmaker Intel for abusing its dominant position in the x86 processor market.
  - The Register, 22 September 2023

• [VERIZON]
  $400,000,000 - Verizon is shutting down the videoconferencing app it bought for $400 million of shareholders dollars in 2020
  - Zero Hedge, 08 August 2023

• [FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM]
  $400,000,000 - Instagram is fined $400 million by the data privacy regulator of Ireland for failing to protect the privacy of children using the service
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 06 September 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $391,500,000 - Google agrees to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states over its use of location tracking. ven when users thought they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, Google continued to collect information regarding their whereabouts. No white Google executives will be going to jail for this crime.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 14 November 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $380,000,000 - The data protection authority in France will fine Google $380 million because Google (and Shein) are flouting French regulations about advertising 'cookies', arguing that neither company adequately informed users they were being tracked for advertising.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 05 September 2025

• [FACEBOOK]
  $375,000,000 - A jury on Tuesday found Facebook/Meta violated New Mexico law in a case accusing it of failing to warn users about the dangers of its platforms and protect children from sexual predators. The jury found Meta liable on all counts, including for willfully engaging in "unfair and deceptive" and "unconscionable" trade practices, and ordered Facebook/Meta to pay $375 million in damages.
  - CNN, 24 March 2026

• $373,000,000 - The European Union fines Delivery Hero and Glovo a total of $373 million in a criminal cartel investigation. Both companies admitted their involvement in the cartel and agreed to settle, the commission said, ultimately leading to a lowered fine.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 03 June 2025

• [TIKTOK]
  $370,000,000 - The European Union fines TikTok $370 million for having weak safeguards to protect the personal information of children using the platform
  - Zero Hedge, 16 September 2023

• [GOOGLE]
  $350,000,000 - A privacy lawsuit involving the now-defunct Google+ social media site has been settled for $350 million, after a lengthy appeals process played out. After Google detected a security breach in 2018 with Google+, it opted not to publicy declare the breach.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 February 2024

• [T-MOBILE]
  $350,000,000 - T-Mobile settles suit over massive hacking for $350,000,000. Among the data affected by the hack were customer social security numbers, addresses, birthdates and driver's licenses for over 7 million people
  - Murdoch's Fox Business, 23 July 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $338,700,000 - Google violated the patent rights of software developer Touchstream Technologies with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 July 2023

• [LINKEDIN]
  $334,000,000 - The data-protection watchdog of Irelan fined LinkedIn 310 million euros ($334.3 million), saying the Microsoft-owned career platform's personal-data processing breached strict European Union data-privacy and security legislation.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 25 October 2024

• [UBER, LYFT]
  $328,000,000 - Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay New York drivers a $328 million settlement after the state attorney general investigated a wage-theft complaint charging that the companies collected certain taxes and fees from drivers rather than passengers
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 November 2023

• [AMAZON]
  $325,000,000 - Amazon-business acquirer Benitago files for bankruptcy. The New York-based company sought protection from creditors less than two years after a $325 million capital raise.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 01 September 2023

• [UBER]
  $324,000,000 - Uber is fined $324 million by a government regulator in the Netherlands over driver data protection. The authorities in the Netherlands said the ride-hailing company had violated European data protection laws when it sent sensitive information to the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 August 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $314,000,000+ - Google must pay more than $314 million to users of Android smartphones, after a jury rule that Google misused data on such cellphones without permission.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 01 July 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $310,000,000 - Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced Friday it has reached a settlement worth $310 million in a shareholder lawsuit over the way it handled allegations accusing executives of sexual misconduct
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 September 2020

• [AMAZON]
  $309,000,000 - Amazon agrees to pay consumers $309 million in returns policy settlement
  - TechCrunch, 27 January 2026

• [SAMSUNG]
  $303,000,000 - Samsung hit with $303 million jury verdict in computer-memory patent lawsuit
  - Thomson's Reuters, 21 April 2023

• $300,000,000+ - Yieldstreet is one of the best-known examples of American startups with the stated mission of democratizing access to assets such as real estate, litigation proceeds and private credit. But some Yieldstreet customers who participated in its real estate deals face huge losses on investments that they say turned out to be far riskier than they thought. Of 30 deals that CNBC reviewed information on, four have been declared total losses by Yieldstreet. Of the rest, 23 are deemed to be on a "watchlist" by the startup as it seeks to recoup value for investors, sometimes by raising more funds from members (one hallmark of a Ponzi scheme). Documents show investors put more than $370 million into 30 real estate projects that have already recognized $78 million in defaults in the past year. Yieldstreet customers who spoke to CNBC say they anticipate deep or total losses on the remainder.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 18 August 2025

• $300,000,000+ - Christine Hunsicker, a prominent entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt clothing technology startup, CaaStle, was criminally charged on Friday with defrauding investors out of more than $300 million
  - Comcast's CNBC, 18 July 2025

• $300,000,000 - The FCC fines an illegal robocaller a record $300 million after blocking billions of their scam calls. It is unlikely the money will be collectable.
  - FCC, 03 August 2023

• [SEAGATE]
  $300,000,000 - Seagate hit with $300 million penalty for continuing $1 billion relationship with blacklisted firm Huawei, despite U.S. export controls
  - Comcast's CNBC, 20 April 2023

• $300,000,000 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a $300 million fine against an auto warranty robocall campaign, the largest-ever penalty proposed by the agency over unwanted calls, in this case, over 5 billion illegal robocalls.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 21 December 2022

• [FOXCONN]
  $300,000,000 - The Foxconn factory [corruption] in Wisconsin could force taxpayers of Wisconsin to pay $300 million in bond repayment that Foxconn had [lied] about paying
  - The Register, 25 May 2022

• [SAMSUNG]
  $280,000,000+ - A federal jury in Texas ruled that Samsung Electronics owes an inventor's company, Headwater Research, more than $278.7 million for infringing two patents related to wireless communications technology
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 April 2025

• [FACEBOOK]
  $276,000,000 - Facebook is fined $276 million in Europe for data-scraping leak. The fine issued by Ireland's Data Protection Commission, Facebook's main privacy regulator in the European Union, is the latest sign of how authorities in the region are becoming more aggressive in applying the bloc's privacy law to big technology companies.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 29 November 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $270,000,000 - Regulators in France said Google failed to notify news publishers that it was using their articles to train its artificial intelligence algorithms, part of a wider ruling against the company for its negotiating practices with media outlets. The disclosure by the French competition authority was part of a fine of 250 million euros, or about $270 million, for failing to negotiate fair licensing deals with media companies to publish article links in search results.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 March 2024

• [WHATSAPP/FACEBOOK]
  $270,000,000 - European Union regulators fined chat service WhatsApp around $270 million for failing to tell the bloc's residents enough about what it does with their data, ramping up privacy enforcement against U.S. tech companies
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 02 September 2021

• [GOOGLE]
  $270,000,000 - Google agreed to pay a fine of nearly $270 million as part of a settlement with French regulators of one of the first antitrust cases globally to allege the tech company abused its leading role in the digital advertising sector
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 June 2021

• [FACEBOOK]
  $263,000,000 - Facebook is fined $263 million over a security breach in 2018 that affected about 3 million users in the European Union
  - TechCrunch, 17 December 2024

• [BLOCK]
  $255,000,000 - Digital payments company Block agreed to pay $255 million to federal and state regulators for deficiencies in its oversight of its peer-to-peer payments tool Cash App and to compensate users who became victims of fraud. Block will pay the CFPB a $55 million penalty, will compensate victims with up $120 million, and pay an $80 million fine to state regulators. Block allegedly directed consumers that suffered financial losses to their banks for redress, but when the banks went back to the company for compensation, it would deny the requests, the CFPB said.
  - Payments Dive, 16 January 2025

• $252,000,000 - Applied Materials to pay $252 million over illegal exports to Zhōngguó
  - Reuters, 12 February 2026

• [RIVIAN]
  $250,000,000 - Rivian has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action shareholder lawsuit filed after the company suddenly hiked prices on its R1 pickup truck and SUV in 2022
  - TechCrunch, 24 October 2025

• [TESLA]
  $243,000,000 - Tesla must pay much of $329 million in damages for being partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash
  - Comcast's CNBC, 01 August 2025

• [TESLA]
  $240,000,000+ - A Miami jury ordered Tesla to pay more than $240 million to the victims of a 2019 crash that killed 22-year-old Naibel Benavides Leon and seriously injured her boyfriend, Dillon Angulo. According to the AP, the jury ruled that because its Autopilot failed, Tesla was partially responsible for the crash even though driver George McGee was distracted by his cellphone.
  - The Cool Down, 15 August 2025

• $240,000,000 - An startup designing AI-powered tractors shuts down and fires all employees, after wasting/losing $240 million in the last three years, and after being sued for allegedly selling defective tractors and making misleading claims about their autonomy
  - Futurism, 03 April 2026

• $240,000,000 - Patent owner StreamScale won a $240 million jury verdict in Waco, Texas, federal court on Friday in a patent case against data-management software company Cloudera.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 13 October 2023

• [SAP]
  $235,000,000+ - SAP, the $192 billion German enterprise tech company, will pay [chump change of] more than $230 million to settle investigations into worldwide "recidivist" foreign bribery practices. Federal prosecutors accused SAP of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to allegedly bribe government officials in Indonesia and South Africa. It is the second time SAP has settled bribery allegations with U.S. regulators.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 January 2024

• $230,000,000 - In less than two years, AI startup, the [misanthropic] Humane (made wearable, AI-embedded pins), blows $230 million in funding, firing its employees and selling off its assets to HP. Their AI pin received horrendous reviews.
  - SF Gate, 19 February 2025

• [APPLE]
  $228,000,000 - The European Union fines Apple $570 million and Facebook $228 million, both companies for violating the EU's digital competition law.
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 23 April 2025

• [APPLE, AMAZON]
  $225,000,000 - The antitrust regulators in Italy have fined Apple and Amazon more than 200 million euros, or $225 million, for cooperating to restrict competition in the sale of Apple and Beats branded products
  - ABC News, 23 November 2021

• [FACEBOOK]
  $220,000,000 - Nigeria fines Facebook/Meta $220 million for violating consumer and data laws
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 July 2024

• ~$220,000,000 - OpenAI-backed Ghost Academy shuts down. It was a startup working on autonomous driving software for automobile manufacturers (including for non-paid robotaxi manufacturers). It lost/wasted nearly $220 million in its failed attempt.
  - TechCrunch, 03 April 2024

• [APPLE, AMAZON]
  $218,000,000 Spain's antitrust watchdog has imposed fines worth a total 194.1 million euros ($218.03 million) on Amazon and Apple for colluding to limit the online sale of devices from Apple and competitors in Spain.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 July 2023

• $210,000,000 - A jury in Texas has sided with Computer Sciences Corporation against Tata Consultancy Services over the theft of source code and documentation. A total of $210 million was this week awarded. The jury agreed that TCS had "willfully and maliciously" misappropriated both source and confidential documentation by "improper means".
  - The Register, 24 November 2023

• [DISK NETWORKS]
  $210,000,000 - Dish Network to pay $210 million to settle a telemarketing lawsuit. The Justice Department said the settlement to resolve a lawsuit by the U.S. government and four states is the largest civil penalty ever paid for telemarketing violations under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
  - Wall Street Journal, 08 December 2020

• [ERICSSON]
  $206,000,000 - Ericsson pleads guilty in U.S. to federal bribery violations, agrees to pay $206 million penalty
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 March 2023

• [GOOGLE]
  $203,000,000 - Google will pay $203 million to settle two class-action lawsuits in the USA for violating users' privacy with Google Assistant recordings and Android's cellular data collection.
  - The Street, 31 January 2026

• $203,000,000 - Honeywell to pay $203 million in settlements for its bribing of officials in Brazil and Algeria. The company agreed to pay nearly $203 million to resolve investigations in the U.S. and Brazil into bribes paid to public officials in Algeria and at Brazil's state-owned oil company.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2022

• $200,000,000+ - Dutch e-bike startup VanMoof raised over $200 million in the last two years. Now it looks like the startup will completely fail, with executives quitting and rumors of bankruptcy.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 July 2023

• $200,000,000 - Social app IRL, which raised $200 million from SoftBank, shuts down after CEO misconduct probe which revealed that 95% of its 20 million 'users' were bots.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 June 2023

• $200,000,000 - Hyundai and Kia will pay out $200 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement, compensating roughly 9 million people for their losses after a 2022 social media trend revealed how relatively simple it was to steal certain models
  - Ars Technica, 19 May 2023

• $200,000,000 - Cellphone carriers facing roughly $200 million in fines are for now shielded from paying by a partisan deadlock at the FCC, as Christian Republican commissioners refuse to hold the carriers accountable for their crimes
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2022

• $200,000,000 - JPMorgan fined $200 million over employees' use of WhatsApp and other messaging apps. The brokerage admitted that it failed to keep track of employees' use of personal messaging apps such as WhatsApp that circumvented record-keeping requirements.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 18 December 2021

• [T-MOBILE]
  $200,000,000 - T-Mobile to pay a $200 million fine over violating the laws of the Federal Lifeline program
  - Wall Street Journal, 05 November 2020

• [Verizon/ATT/T-Mobile]
  ~$200,000,000 - The FCC fined four wireless carriers - Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile and Sprint - nearly $200 million for sharing customer-location data without consent.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 30 April 2024

• $187,000,000 - Charles Schwab to pay $187 million to settle SEC charges that it misled robo-advisor clients on fees. The agency alleged Schwab didn't disclose a "cash drag" on client portfolios, which enriched the firm but caused investors to make less money for the same amount of risk in most market conditions.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 June 2022

• [ATT]
  $177,000,000 - AT&T agrees to pay a fine of $177 million for 2019/2024 incidents where it allowed hackers to illegally downloaded from an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform
  - USA Today, 24 June 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $177,000,000 - South Korea's antitrust regulator fines Google $177 million for abusing mobile market dominance. Google allegedly used its market position to block smartphone makers like Samsung from using operating systems developed by rivals, according to the Korea Fair Trade Commission. The regulator alleged that Google's practice stifled innovation in the development of new operating systems for smartphones.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 14 September 2021

• [FACEBOOK]
  $175,000,000 - Facebook ordered to pay an inventor $175,000,000 for infringing his patents for software for a walkie-talkie messaging app
  - Military Times, 28 September 2022

• $172,000,000 - SF tech company Tally - with a product for helping people manage credit card debt, once worth $855 million, shuts down amid wave of complaints. It wasted $172 million in investors' funding.
  - SF Gate, 13 August 2024

• [SHEIN]
  $170,000,000 - The data protection authority in France will fine Shein $170 million because Shein (and Google) are flouting French regulations about advertising 'cookies', arguing that neither company adequately informed users they were being tracked for advertising.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 05 September 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $169,000,000 - A French regulator fined Google $169 million and Facebook $67 million, saying the companies made it too difficult for users to reject cookies, the identifiers used to track their data
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 07 January 2022

• $167,700,000 - NSO, a spyware firm based in Israel, is ordered to pay Facebook and WhatsApp $167,700,000 for hacking about 1,400 users on the instant messaging platform
  - The Hill, 06 May 2025

• $165,000,000 - Shares of Nikola rise 9% after disgraced founder Trevor Milton is ordered by an arbitration panel to repay the company $165 million to remimburse the company for legal expenses due to lies made by Milton
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 24 October 2023

• [GOOGLE, AMAZON]
  $163,000,000 - France's privacy watchdog issue fines totalling $163 million to Google and Amazon, saying they improperly collected information about website visitors, as European regulators haggle over such sanctions
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 11 December 2020

• [APPLE]
  $162,400,000 - The competition regulator in France fines Apple $162,400,000 over concerns the company abused its dominant position in mobile apps through the privacy measures it imposes on developers on its iPhone and s operating system.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 11 March 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $161,000,000 - Authorities in India have fined Google 13 billion rupees ($161 million) for using its Android platform to dominate the market
  - BBC, 23 October 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $155,000,000 - Search giant Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California, and $62 million to private plaintiffs, on Thursday over its location-privacy practices
  - Thomson's Reuters, 15 September 2023

• $151,500,000 - Palo Alto Networks must pay Centripetal $151.5 million, as decided by a jury in a patent infringement lawsuit
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 02 February 2024

• $150,000,000 - SoftBank sues social app IRL over "elaborate scheme" that defrauded SoftBank of $150 million. An investigation found that 95% of the app's users were fake.
  - NBC News, 04 August 2023

• $150,000,000 - Stability AI is being sued by a co-founder, who claims he was deceived into selling his 15% stake in one of the hottest startups in the sector for $100 to CEO Emad Mostaque, months before the company raised millions at a $1 billion valuation.
  - Semafor, 13 July 2023

• [TWITTER/X]
  $150,000,000 - Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data in violation of a 2011 agreement with the government
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 25 May 2022

• $141,000,000 - JD.com, the e-commerce giant in Zhōngguó, wins an antitrust lawsuit against Alibaba, which was ordered by a Beijing court to pay US$141 million in damages
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 29 December 2023

• [INTUIT]
  $141,000,000 - Intuit's TurboTax to pay customers $141 million after allegedly steering them from free services, in a settlement reached with attorney generals of 50 states. About 4.4 million customers were "unfairly charged".
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 May 2022

• [TWITTER/X]
  $140,000,000 - Elon Musk's Twitter/X is fined $140 million by the European Commission over its "deceptive" blue ticks for verification that it charges for, but doesn't do much verification
  - BBC, 05 December 2025

• $140,000,000 - Cadence Design agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $140 million to resolve criminal charges for selling its chip design products to a Chinese military university believed to be involved in simulating nuclear explosions
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 July 2025

• $138,750,000 - Lenovo ordered to pay $138.7 million settlement to US-based InterDigital in landmark patent licensing dispute
  - WRAL TechWire, 17 March 2023

• [GOOGLE]
  $135,000,000 - Google will pay $135 million to settle a proposed class action by smartphone users who accused Google of programming its Android operating system to collect their cellular data without permission.
  - Reuters, 28 January 2026

• [NIKOLA]
  $125,000,000 - Nikola, the upstart electric truck maker, agreed to pay $125 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it let its founder, Trevor Milton, defraud investors
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 21 December 2021

• [SAMSUNG]
  $118,000,000 - Samsung ordered to pay $118 million for infringing patents owned by Netlist
  - Thomson's Reuters, 22 November 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $118,000,000 - Google agrees to pay $118 million to settle a lawsuit representing 15,000 women employed by Google in California who claimed that Google had systematically underpaid women
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 June 2022

• [APPLE]
  $115,000,000 - Apple is fined $115 million in Italy because of its app tracking policy. The regulator says the policy harms the interests of the commercial partners of Apple. Italy's competition watchdog ruled that Apple imposes unfair privacy rules on app developers by requiring them to gain users' consent to collect and use fata for advertising.
  - MWSJ, 23 December 2025

• [ORACLE]
  $115,000,000 - Oracle agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 July 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $113,000,000 - The Competition Commission of India, India's antitrust watchdog, has hit Google with a $113 million fine for abusing the dominant position of its Google Play Store and ordered the firm to allow app developers to use third-party payments processing services for in-app purchases or for purchasing apps, the second such penalty on the Android-maker in just as many weeks in its largest market by users
  - Tech Crunch, 25 October 2022

• [APPLE]
  $113,000,000 - 34 U.S. states win lawsuit where Apple will pay $113 million for the crime of throttling older iPhones in new "batterygate" settlement, Apple having earlier agreed to pay $500 million in a class action lawsuit
  - The Verge, 18 November 2020

• $112,000,000 - A pair of flashy e-commerce entrepreneurs who bought bankrupt retailers like Pier 1 Imports, RadioShack, and Modell's Sporting Goods were accused by the feds this week of running a Ponzi scheme - and the clampdown came after ex-employees blew the whistle on them, The Post has learned. The duo bilked hundreds of investors out of $112 million through Miami-based Retail Ecommerce Ventures or REV, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed in Florida federal court on Tuesday.
  - MNYP, 25 September 2025

• [FACEBOOK]
  $102,000,000 - Facebook hits with a $102 million privacy fine from the European Union over 2019 password security lapse
  - Associated Press, 27 September 2024

• [ZILLOW]
  $100,000,000 - FTC accuses Zillow of paying Redfin $100 million to stop competing on rental listings. The agency said the alleged deal reduces competition in an already concentrated market and is likely to drive up the cost of advertising vacancies in rental buildings with more than 25 units. The charges fall under the criminal antitrust laws.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 30 September 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $100,000,000 - A federal judge in San Jose has approved a $100 million settlement with Google in a 14-year class action over the company's ad system, despite concerns over "disappointing" financial ties discovered during the final approval process.
  - Courthouse News, 02 September 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $100,000,000 - Google has agreed to pay $100 million in cash to settle a long-running lawsuit claiming it overcharged advertisers by failing to provide promised discounts and charged for clicks on ads outside the geographic areas the advertisers targeted.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 March 2025

• $100,000,000 - After raising $100 million AI mortgage fintech LoanSnap is being sued (by seven creditors), fined (by the Federal Housign Authority) and evicted (by landlords, who are also suing)
  - TechCrunch, 03 June 2024

• $100,000,000 - The value of Swvl (a global Uber-like service for rides and buses) has dropped more than 99% since a SPAC deal brought it to Nasdaq, having used up $100 million in investor funding
  - BusinessWeek, 13 March 2023

• $100,000,000 - The two founders of Bitwise Industries, a failed California tech company, were charged by federal authorities Thursday for their roles in a $100 million fraud scheme in which they bankrolled their lavish lifestyles and hefty salaries. They were arrested on charges they conspired to commit wire fraud and took millions of dollars from various businesses and individuals.
  - New York Post, 11 November 2023

• $100,000,000 - Technology companies have bribed spent more than $100 million to fight antitrust measures and other bills in Congress [KM: that are up for sale].
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2022

• $100,000,000 - The SEC charges 8 social media influencers in an illegal $100 million scheme to pump-and-dump stocks
  - Zero Hedge, 14 December 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $100,000,000 - Google will pay a $100 million penalty to settle charges it violated the privacy laws of the state of Illinois. The tech giant was accused of violating the Biometric Information Privacy Act regarding its use of a face regrouping tool in the Google Photos app.
  - USA Today, 03 June 2022

• [UBER]
  $100,000,000 - New Jersey forces Uber to pay $100 million in back taxes, after Uber used the scam of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 September 2022

• $100,000,000 - Vonage will pay $100 million to settle FTC allegations of trapping consumers in subscriptions
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 04 November 2022

• $100,000,000 - Software game developer Riot Games, owners of the popular League of Legends, agrees to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit over gender discrimination at the company ($20 million is for the lawyers)
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 28 December 2021

• [GOOGLE]
  $100,000,000 - Russia fines Google with record $100 million for allowing banned content. The content under dispute which state media regulator Roskomnadzor has demanded the removal of includes pornographic material, as well as posts that reportedly promote drugs and suicide.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 December 2021

• [DEERE]
  $99,000,000 - John Deere to pay $99 million in monumental right-to-repair settlement. The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.
  - The Drive, 08 April 2026

• [APPLE]
  $98,800,000 - Apple's Nihon unit is being charged 13 billion yen ($97.82 million) in additional taxes by Tokyo for bulk sales of iPhones and other Apple devices to foreign tourists that were incorrectly exempted from the consumption tax
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 December 2022

• [APPLE]
  $95,000,000 - Apple to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated the privacy of Apple's customers. Mobile device owners complained that Apple routinely recorded their private conversations after they activated Siri unintentionally, and disclosed these conversations to third parties such as advertisers.
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 03 January 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $90,000,000 - Google agreed to pay a $90 million settlement to resolve criminal claims it monopolized Android app markets through the Google Play platform
  - Top Class Actions, 14 March 2023

• [FACEBOOK]
  $90,000,000 - Facebook will pay $90 million to settle a privacy lawsuit dating back to 2012
  - The Hill, 15 February 2022

• $90,000,000 - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted preliminary approval of a $90 million settlement with Facebook to resolve a long-running class action accusing Facebook of tracking the activities of its subscribers on non-Facebook websites -- even while signed out of their Facebook accounts.
  - AP News, 24 June 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $90,000,000 - Google has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a legal fight with app developers over the money they earned creating apps for Android smartphones and for enticing users to make in-app purchases. The app developers, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, had accused Google of using agreements with smartphone makers, technical barriers and revenue sharing agreements to effectively close the app ecosystem and shunt most payments through its Google Play billing system with a default service fee of 30%.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 30 June 2022

• [T-MOBILE]
  $90,000,000+ - T-Mobile to pay at least $90 million, including full customer refunds, to settle a lawsuit by the FTC over mobile cramming
  - FTC, 19 December 2019

• [APPLE]
  $89,800,000 - Apple and Goldman Sachs ordered to pay $89 million after Apple Card failures
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 23 October 2024

• $88,000,000 - Fintech founder Albert Saniger is charged with fraud after his 'AI' shopping app, Nate, is found to be powered by humans in the Philippines.
  - TechCrunch, 10 April 2025

• $87,500,000 - John Malone and his former colleagues on Charter Communications board agreed to a $87.5 million settlement of claims the billionaire unfairly benefited from the $79 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable he helped finance
  - Bloomberg Law, 03 March 2023

• [AIRBNB]
  $85,000,000 - Airbnb is fined 56 million pounds ($85 million) for advertising unlicensed apartments
  - BBC, 15 December 2025

• [ZOOM]
  $85,000,000 - Zoom has agreed to a 'historic' payout of $85 million as part of a class-action settlement brought by its users, including church groups who said they were left traumatized by "zoom-bombing" (where hackers and pranksters crash into virtual meetings with abusive messages and imagery)
  - The Guardian, 23 April 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $85,000,000 - Google to pay $85 million to end Arizona consumer-privacy suit
  - Bloomberg, 04 October 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $76,000,000 - Google agrees to $76 million settlement with French publishers, after illegally using their copyrighted materials. And will pay $22 million annually to a group of 121 national and local French news publications.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2021

• [ADOBE]
  $75,000,000 - Adobe pays $75 million to settle US lawsuit over termination fees, subscription cancellations
  - Reuters (@ YF), 13 March 2026

• [QUALCOMM]
  $75,000,000 - Qualcomm agreed to pay $75 million to resolve a lawsuit in which shareholders accused the chipmaker of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 18 June 2024

• [AMAZON]
  $70,000,000 - Amazon fined in Deutschland over price-filtering tools. Antitrust officials in Deutschland fined Amazon.com about $70 million, saying tools it uses to filter out listings from third-party vendors were in breach of competition law.
  - MWSJ, 06 February 2026

• [GOOGLE, FACEBOOK]
  $70,000,000 - South Korea is levying more than $70 million in fines against Google and Facebook over alleged digital-privacy violations, the latest government action scrutinizing the tech industry's collection of personal data
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2022

• [FACEBOOK]
  $70,000,000M - The U.K's competition regulator fines Facebook $70 million, stating that Facebook had failed to provide required updates outlining its compliance with an interim order the watchdog imposed in 2020, as part of its review of its proposed takeover of Giphy, a provider of animated images for use in social media.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2021

• [ROBINHOOD]
  $70,000,000 - Robinhood to pay $70 million for outages and misleading customers, the largest-ever penalty imposed by the FINRA industry regulator. The settlement regards the technical failures Robinhood experienced in March of 2020, Robinhood's lack of due diligence before approving customers to place options trades and purveying misleading information to customers about aspects like trading on margin.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 30 June 2021

• [FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM]
  $68,500,000 - Facebook's Instagram will pay $68.5 million to Illinois users in the latest big biometric privacy settlement<
  - Forbes, 18 July 2023

• [GOOGLE]
  $68,000,000 - Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied [illegally] on smartphone users, violating their privacy.
  - Reuters, 26 January 2026

• [MICROSOFT]
  $64,000,000 - France's privacy watchdog fined Microsoft $64 million for not making it easy enough for users of its Bing search engine to reject cookies used for online ads.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 23 December 2022

• [OPENDOOR]
  $62,000,000 - Opendoor, an online home buying firm, settles deceptive marketing claims for $62 million. The Federal Trade Commission accused Opendoor of deceiving customers into offering their properties to the online platform for less than they would have made on the open market, lying being a popular Silicon Valley tactic best abused by Uber.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 August 2022

• [AMAZON]
  $61,700,000 - Amazon to pay $61.7 million to settle FTC charges it withheld some customer tips from Amazon Flex Drivers. Settlement prohibits Amazon from misrepresenting driver earnings, pay or percent of tips paid to drivers, changing its handling of tips without drivers' consent.
  - U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 02 February 2021

• [TINDER]
  $60,500,000 - Tinder agrees to gigantic class action lawsuit settlement for age discrimination for the fees it charged users. Tinder has not admitted to wrongdoing in the settlement, but agreed to pay out $60.5 million to resolve the claims that both Tinder Plus and Tinder Gold were in violation of the statutes.
  - SF Gate, 06 March 2026

• ~$60,000,000 - Hytera, a telecommunications company based in Zhōngguó, pleads Guilty to allegations in a Motorola Solutions' trade secrets theft case. Hytera could face a fine of up to $60 million for stealing walkie talkie-related trade secrets.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 15 January 2025

• [ATT]
  $60,000,000 - ATT agrees to pay $60 million to settle an FTC lawsuit that failed to properly notify customers their data speeds were being intentionally reduced
  - Bloomberg, 03 January 2022

• [EBAY]
  $59,000,000 - EBay to pay $59 million in settlement over pill presses. The Justice Department alleged that thousands of pill presses and encapsulating machines were sold on the popular online marketplace.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 01 February 2024

• [UBER]
  $59,000,000 - California fines Uber $59 million for stonewalling questions about sexual assaults. Judge threatens to suspend Uber's license to operate if it t comply with 30 days.
  - MarketWatch, 15 December 2020

• [MICROSOFT]
  $55,000,000 - Microsoft-owned Activision Blizzard has agreed to settle a case from a California state agency that alleged the video game publisher discriminated against women, including denying them promotion opportunities and paying them less. Activision Blizzard will pay nearly $55 million to provide relief to female employees and contractors from October 2015 to December 2020 and cover legal fees.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 16 December 2023

• [CLEARVIEW AI]
  $50,000,000+ - Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the privacy rights of its subjects, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million. But the unique agreement gives plaintiffs in the federal suit a share of the potential value of the company, rather than a traditional payout.
  - Associated Press, 21 June 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $50,000,000 - Google to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Black American employees who alleged a "racially biased corporate culture"
  - MNYP, 09 May 2025

• [APPLE]
  $50,000,000 - A federal judge in California approves Apple's plan to pay $50,000,000 to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit over the faulty MacBook butterfly keyboard
  - MacTrast, 29 November 2022

• $49,500,000 - Attorney General Jennings announced today that Delaware has reached a multistate settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and response to a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers across the United States. Under the settlement, Blackbaud has agreed to overhaul its data security and breach notification practices and make a $49.5 million payment to the states. Delaware will receive $380,662 from the settlement.a
  - State of Delaware, 12 October 2023

• $45,000,000 - MediaAlpha to pay a settlement of $45 million for joining Prudential Financial in misleading consumers about healthcare services and bombarding them with robocalls
  - Murdoch's Fox News, 06 August 2025

• [IBM]
  $45,000,000 - IBM wins $45 million from Zynga in a patent lawsuit involving interactive games technology
  - Law360, 16 September 2024

• [ROBINHOOD]
  $45,000,000 - Robinhood to pay $45 million to settle charges over record keeping, trade reporting and other rule violations
  - Thomson's Reuters, 13 January 2025

• [GOOGLE]
  $43,000,000 - Google to pay nearly $43 million over collection of Android location data. Australian regulators accused the tech giant of misleading consumers about the collection and use of personal location data.
  - CNET, 12 August 2022

• $42,500,000 - Federal Court upholds ruling that Polygroup must pay Willis Electric a fine of $42.5 million, for infringing Willis Electric's patent on christmas tree electrical connections
  - IPWatchdog, 19 February 2026

• [TESLA]
  $42,000,000 - Tesla to pay $42 million for employee crash, who was driving a company-owned Ford truck, that injured motorcyclist in 2017
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 March 2024

• [BLOCK]
  $40,000,000 - Block to pay $40 million in settlement with the financial industry regulator of New York State for violations of anti-money-laundering laws. The agency said its investigation additionally found its lax practices allowed for largely anonymous and high-risk bitcoin transactions to proceed without proper scrutiny.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 11 April 2025

• $40,000,000 - MicroStrategy and its founder to pay $40 million in tax fraud lawsuit. Michael Saylor did not pay any income taxes to Washington despite living there from 2005 through 2020, the attorney general for the District of Columbia said.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 June 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $39,900,000 - Google will pay Washington state $39.9 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 May 2023

• $36,000,000+ - Big Tech has spent $36 million lobbying/[bribing] politicians in Washington to prevent passage of new criminal antitrust laws to be applied to their highly concentrated industry that would cost them billions in lost revenue
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 10 June 2022

• [GOOGLE]
  $35,800,000 - Google agreed on Monday to pay a $35.8 million fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the two largest telcos in Australia to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines
  - MNYP, 18 August 2025

• [APPLE]
  $35,000,000 - Apple has agreed to a $35 million class settlement, resolving allegations that a flaw in iPhone 7 and 7 Plus devices caused poor sound and interfered with the ability to make calls and use voice features
  - Bloomberg Law, 26 May 2023

• [MICROSOFT]
  $35,000,000 - Microsoft's Activision Blizzard will pay $35 million to settle US government allegations that the video game giant violated a whistleblower protection rule and lacked processes to collect workplace misconduct complaints, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 03 February 2023

• [PINTEREST]
  $34,700,000 - Pinterest settles lawsuit from female 'co-creator' for $34.7 million. Christine Martinez, who was a friend of two of Pinterest's three co-founders, sued the company in 2021 for breach of implied contract and other claims.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 May 2025

• [AMAZON]
  $34,700,000 - A French regulator has fined Amazon France Logistique, the operator of Amazon's large warehouses in France, 32 million euros ($34.7 million) for what it called illegal and intrusive employee monitoring
  - Comcast's CNBC, 23 January 2024

• [CLEARVIEW AI]
  $33,700,000 - Clearview AI is fined $33.7 million by the privacy protection regulations in the Netherlands for maintaining an "illegal database" of faces of humans
  - Associated Press, 03 September 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $32,500,000 - Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on a smart speaker patent owned by Sonos
  - The Verge, 26 May 2023

• [GOOGLE]$32,000,000 - The Fair Trade Commission of South Korea fines Google $32 million for blocking developers from releasing games on rival's platform
  - TechCrunch, 11 April 2023

• [DISNEY]
  $30,000,000 - Disney to pay a measily $10 million after the Justice Department said it broke privacy rules for children on YouTube. The DOJ accused Disney of mislabeling videos aimed at children, resulting in targeted ads and unlawful data collection.
  - Gizmodo, 30 December 2025

• [VERIZON]
  $30,000,000 - Verizon will pay $30 million to settle a 2016 lawsuit over an underperforming hedge fund the plaintiffs alleged the company dragged its feet in removing from its retirement plan.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2023

• [ROBINHOOD]
  $30,000,000 - Robinhood's cryptocurrency division was fined $30 million for "significant failures" in areas of anti-money laundering and cybersecurity regulations
  - Comcast's CNBC, 02 August 2022

• [APPLE]
  $30,000,000 - Apple details $30 million settlement a lawsuit involving off-the-clock bag searches of employees
  - Engadget, 13 January 2022

• [TESLA]
  ~$30,000,000 - Company-owned Tesla stores in Canada probably lied to the government of Canada when they said that they sold 8,653 Tesla vehicles in 3 days to claim a socialist subsidy of about $30 million before it expired. Suspicious about any company, especially one hated such as Tesla, selling two cars a minute during a single weekend, the government halted the payments and ordered an investigation.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 March 2025

• $28,000,000 - SiriusXM agrees to pay $28 million to settle claims it violated the rules of the National Do Not Call Registry
  - The Hill, 28 January 2026

• [GOOGLE]
  $28,000,000 - Google agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favored white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers
  - Thomson's Reuters, 18 March 2025

• [ROBINHOOD]
  $26,000,000 - Two units of Robinhood Markets Inc. agreed to pay $26 million to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority allegations that it failed to respond to red flags about potential misconduct and did not verify the identities of thousands of customers.
  - Bloomberg, 07 March 2025

• [FACEBOOK]
  $25,000,000 - Facebook to pay Trump $25 million to settle a lawsuit over how Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram were shut down for two years after the January 6, 2021, failed insurrection that Trump encouraged
  - Axios, 29 January 2025

• [GRUBHUB]
  $25,000,000 - Grubhub to pay $25 million in FTC settlement over harmful practices against diners and workers
  - Comcast's CNBC, 17 December 2024

• [APPLE]
  $25,000,000 - Apple will pay $25 million in back pay and civil penalties to settle a matter about the hiring practices at Apple under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Apple was accused of not advertising positions on its external website and erecting hurdles such as requiring mailed paper applications.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 09 November 2023

• [AMAZON]
  $25,000,000 - Amazon agreed on Wednesday to pay a civil penalty of $25 million to settle federal charges that it kept sensitive information collected from children for years, including their precise locations and voice recordings, in violation of a children's online privacy law.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 1 June 2023

• [LYFT]
  $25,000,000 - On Thursday, Lyft agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve claims from its shareholders that the company failed to be transparent about "safety problems" -- which sure seems like a gentle way to phrase a 2019 lawsuit from 14 women who say they were raped or sexually assaulted by their Lyft drivers. But the rape victims are receiving no payments. Apparently, the company's wealthy shareholders claim they were the real victims harmed by Lyft's sexual assault scandals.
  - Jezebel, 16 June 2022

• [FACEBOOK]
  $25,000,000 - Facebook has been ordered by a Washington State court to pay $25 million in fines after it found that the social media platform violated the state's political disclosure law 822 separate times between 2019 and 2021
  - Zero Hedge, 29 October 2022

• [IBM]
  $24,250,000 - IBM Corp has agreed to pay $24.25 million to resolve a pair of investigations by the Federal Communications Commission over subsidies awarded over 15 years to connect schools and libraries to broadband
  - Thomson's Reuters, 23 December 2020

• [ORACLE]
  $23,000,000 - SEC fines Oracle $23 million, says the company for a second time bribed foreign officials for business
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 September 2022

• [ATT]
  $23,000,000 - ATT is ordered to pay a $23 million fine for bribing a lawmaker in Illinois in order to secure a key policy vote
  - TechDirt, 19 October 2022

• [PINTEREST]
  $22,500,000 - Social-media company Pinterest said it would make changes to improve its workplace culture after a monthslong review and the $22.5 million settlement of claims of discrimination and retaliation by its former operating chief
  - Wall Street Journal, 17 December 2020

• $22,000,000+ - Two investors, Michael and Gerald Shvartsman, plead guilty to participating in an insider trading scheme linked to the blockbuster deal that brought Trump's social media business public. The indictment accused the brothers and a third individual, Bruce Garelick, of together illegally making more than $22 million in October 2021 by trading on their inside knowledge of the deal.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 04 April 2024

• [CLEARVIEW AI]
  $22,000,000 - Italy fines Clearview AI over 20 million euros and orders data deleted
  - Tech Crunch, 09 March 2022

• [APPLE]
  $20,000,000 - Apple will pay $20 million to settle Apple Watch battery swelling lawsuit
  - The Verge, 31 January 2025

• [MICROSOFT]
  $20,000,000 - FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without the consent of their parents
  - FTC, 05 June 2023

• [APPLE]
  $20,000,000 - Apple agrees to set-aside $20 million to compensate some iPhone 4S owners who experienced worse performance after an iOS 9 update
  - MacRumors, 05 May 2022

• [ZOOM]
  $18,000,000 - Zoom Communications has offered $18 million to settle a four-year-old US Securities and Exchange Commission probe related to its privacy policies and communications.
  - Bloomberg, 27 November 2024

• [MICROSOFT]
  $18,000,000 - Microsoft's Activision Blizzard settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $18 million. The sexual harassment suit against the Call of Duty maker is the second largest in EEOC history.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 March 2022

• [SUPERMICRO]
  $17,500,000 - SuperMicro pays $17.5 million fine to the SEC due to alleged accounting violations. According to the SEC, former Supermicro CFO Howard Hideshima allegedly encouraged employees to maximize revenue at the end of quarters without putting controls in place to accurately record it, which resulted in the company "improperly and prematurely" recognizing revenue.
  - CRN News, 25 August 2020

• [DOORDASH]
  $16,800,000 - DoorDash will pay $16.8 million to workers for, in its early years, not giving customer-paid tips to the workers - pure theft.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 February 2025

• [AVAST]
  $16,500,000 - The Federal Trade Commission will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the company from selling the users' web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes
  - Bleeping Computer, 22 February 2024

• [LYFT]
  $16,000,000 - New Jersey orders Lyft to pay $16 million in unpaid taxes
  - Zero Hedge, 06 November 2020

• [TIKTOK]
  $15,900,000 - The UK data regulator has fined 12.7 million euros ($15.9 million) for a number of breaches of data protection law, including misusing the personal data of children.
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 06 November 2020

• [HP]
  $15,000,000 - Hewlett-Packard agrees to pay $18 million to settle a lawsuit that it discriminated against older staff when firing people when HP split in two in 2015
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 27 October 2023

• [TESLA]
  $15,000,000 - A federal judge rules that Tesla must pay an ex-worker $15 million for "disturbing" racist abuse that he experienced at work, with Tesla doing "little or nothing to respond".
  - Ars Technica, 14 April 2022

• [MICROSOFT]
  $14,000,000 - Microsoft will pay $14,000,000 to settle allegations it discriminated against employees who took leave
  - Associated Press, 03 July 2024

• [FACEBOOK]
  $14,000,000 - Facebook agreed on Tuesday to pay up to $14.25 million to settle claims brought by the federal government in the waning days of the Trump administration that the company had discriminated against United States workers by improperly reserving jobs for immigrants
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 October 2021

• $12,500,000 - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that software company Synchronoss Technologies agreed to a $12.5 million settlement for "long-running accounting improprieties".
  - Compliance Week, 07 June 2022

• $12,250,000 - FitBit will pay a civil penalty of $12.25 million after it "knowingly failed to immediately report" a defect in its Ionic smartwatches that caused dozens of people to sustain burn injuries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission stated.
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 24 January 2025

• [APPLE]
  $12,100,000 - Apple pays $12.1 million fine for alleged market abuse with mobile apps in Rossiya
  - Thomson's Reuters, 27 February 2023

• [DOORDASH]
  $11,250,000 - The state of Illinois fines DoorDash $11,250,000 for stealing customer-paid tips from workers for DoorDash
  - State Journal-Register, 12 November 2024

• [TIKTOK]
  $11,000,000 - Italy fines TikTok $11 million for failing to protect minors
  - Zero Hedge, 14 March 2024

• [UBER]
  $10,900,000 - Uber fined almost $11 million by privacy watchdog in the Netherlands. Ride-hailing company made it difficult for drivers to access their information and failed to sufficiently disclose its data practices, regulator says.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 01 February 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  

  $10,000,000+ - Google earned $10 million in the past two years by allowing misleading anti-abortion ads 'fake clincs'
  - Warner Brothers' CNN, 15 June 2023

• [TWITTER/X]
  ~$10,000,000 - Elon Musk's toy, Twitter/X, will pay about $10 million to Trump to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump over the suspension of his accounts following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters in January 2021.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 12 February 2025

• [DISNEY]
  $10,000,000 - The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into alleged violations of child privacy laws
  - Courthouse News, 02 September 2025

• $10,000,000 - A start-up founder who sold AI chatbot to schools is charged with fraud, after raising $10,000,000 and ending up in bankruptcy. Joanna Smith-Griffin was charged with lying to investors about revenue and her customer base, which she claimed included some of the nation's largest school districts, including schools in New York City.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 November 2024

• [ATT,Verizon,T-Mobile]
  $10,000,000 - T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleged the carriers falsely advertised wireless plans as "unlimited" and phones as "free".
  - Zero Hedge, 10 May 2024

• $10,000,000 - App Annie, which collects and sells mobile-app usage statistics, agreed to pay $10 million to the SEC to settle a fraud investigation over how it disclosed its data practices to trading clients
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2021

• [GOOGLE]
  $9,500,000 - Google has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who accused the company earlier this year of "deceiving users and invading their privacy." Google has also agreed to change some of its practices, primarily concerning how it informs users about collecting, storing and using their location data.
  - EnGadget, 30 December 2022

• [UBER]
  $8,500,000 - [Serf-exploiting] Uber is found liable in the rape of a woman by an Uber driver, setting state fo thousands of similar lawsuits. In a federal bellwether case, the jury ordered the ride-hailing giant to pay $8.5 million to Jaylynn Dean, who said one of its drivers assaulted her in 2023. [KM: boy is Uber going to have to destroy tons of paid-human driver jobs to find the profits to remain rich while paying for these types of rape]
  - ONYT, 06 February 2026

• $8,500,000 - The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called "unlawful practices", which include misleading both the job seekers (caregivers) and job posters (families) who use the site.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 August 2024

• [APPLE]
  $8,500,000 - Apple is fined $8.5 million for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads. The company harvested iPhone owners' data for targeted ads without proper consent, a French regulator ruled.
  - Gizmodo, 04 January 2023

• [AMAZON]
  $8,000,000 - Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close to $8 million (or in local currency: PLN 31,850,141), also calls out the e-commerce giant for deceptive design elements which may inject a false sense of urgency into the purchasing process and mislead shoppers about elements like product availability and delivery dates.
  - Ars Technica, 27 March 2024

• [GOOGLE]
  $8,000,000 - Google to pay $8M settlement for "lying to Texans" using deceptive ads promoting its Pixel 4 smartphone
  - Ars Technica, 12 May 2023

• [MOTOROLA]
  $7,000,000 - Motorola won a costly [to taxpayers] $7 million contract to modernize the emergency radio system in Kern County, Texas. When a devastating flash flood swept through the county, emergency crews had trouble using it in 25% of the region. A local non-profit public utility offered a system with greater coverage at a less cost. But [corrupt] politicians tilt bidding for such projects towards Motorola, a rich technology company that dominates the emergency communications business in the United States, generating large [socialist] profits from taxpayer-funded projects.
  - ONYT, 26 October 2025

• [DELL]
  $6,500,000+ - Dell has been fined more than $6.5 million by Australian regulators after it was found to have misled consumers on discounted hardware prices
  - IT Pto, 14 August 2023

• [FACEBOOK, GOOGLE]
  $6,000,000 - Facebook/Meta and Google/YouTube found liable for [just one] woman's debilitating social media addication in a landmark trial, awarding her $6 million for physical damage and punitive damage
  - MS.NOW, 25 March 2026

• [TESLA]
  $6,000,000 - Tesla agreed to pay just over $6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by customers who faced sudden Solar Roof price hikes in 2021 after agreeing to have the systems installed at their homes.
  - Racket News, 11 July 2023

• $6,000,000 - The Federal Trade Commission announced a $6 million settlement with Edmodo, an ed tech provider, for violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Section 5 of the;5D FTC Act
  - Lexology, 25 May 2023

• [AMAZON]
  $5,900,000 - California has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant worked warehouse employees so hard that it put their safety at risk, alleging illegal work quotas at 2 warehouses.
  - Associated Press, 18 June 2024

• $5,900,000 - A federal judge in North Carolina has authorized a $5.9 million settlement agreement between Citrix and workers who launched a pair of consolidated unpaid overtime suits against the workspace software giant
  - The Register, 06 September 2023

• [WALMART]
  $5,600,000 - Walmart to pay $5.6 million as part of settlement for overcharging customers
  - USA Today, 11 August 2025

• [CLEARVIEW]
  $5,600,000 - Clearview AI, the US startup that has attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the internet and used people's data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in France over non-cooperation with the data protection regulator. The overdue penalty payment 5.2 million euros ($5.6 million) has been issued by the French regulator, the CNIL.
  - TechCrunch, 10 May 2023

• [NETFLIX]
  $4,500,000 - Netflix is fined $4.8 million by regulators in the Netherlands, because Netflix did not give users adequate information on how it processes their personal data
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 19 December 2024

• [DELL]
  $4,350,000 - Dell has agreed to pay $2.3 million and Iron Bow has agreed to pay $2.05 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting non-competitive bids to the Army and thereby overcharging it under the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing contract
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 November 2024

• [HP]
  $4,000,000 - HP agrees to pay $4 million to customers in a settlement over claims of "falsely advertising" some of its PCs and keyboards
  - Ars Technica, 17 April 2025

• $3,400,000 - Fubo has agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the sports-streaming service provider of unlawfully distributing customers' personally identifiable information (PII) without their consent.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 July 2025

• $3,280,000 - EBlock Corporation has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and agreed to pay a $3.28 million criminal fine for charges of "entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy" - using individuals who became employees as a result of an asset acquisition - to suppress competition by rigging bids and pooling profits in online used vehicle auctions
  - Auto Remarketing, 30 January 2026

• [TESLA]
  $3,200,000 - A jury orders Tesla to pay $3.2 million to an employee who suffered from racist treatment
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 March 2023

• [EBAY]
  $3,000,000 - EBay to pay $3M after employees sent live spiders and cockroaches to Ina and David Steiner, who run their own e-commerce trade publication called EcommerceBytes -- and who were threatened to stop reporting on the eBay
  - NY Post, 11 January 2024

• $3,000,000 - Vizio agrees to pay $3 million for alleged 'false' refresh rate claims for its televisions
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 December 2023

• [ADOBE]
  $3,000,000 - Adobe agrees to pay $3 million to settle kickback allegations involving federal software sales
  - Department of Justice, 13 April 2023

• [MICROSOFT]
  $3,000,000 - Microsoft to pay $3 million over Rossiya sanctions, and export controls violations. The majority of the apparent violations involved blacklisted companies in Rossiya or persons in the Crimea region of Ukraine, Treasury officials said.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, 07 April 2023

• [DOORDASH]
  $2,500,000 - DoorDash reached a $2.5 million settlement with the attorney general of the District of Columbia over claims the company misled consumers on how it would allocate tips for workers
  - CNBC, 24 November 2020

• [GOOGLE]
  $2,200,000 - Google was fined 2 million euros, about $2.2 million, by the Paris Commercial Court over abusive practices toward developers on its app store
  - Bloomberg, 29 March 2022

• [UBER]
  $2,200,000 - Uber Technologies will pay more than $2 million and waive wait time fees for disabled passengers to settle U.S. allegations that the ride share company had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 18 July 2022

• [LYFT]
  $2,100,000 - Lyft is paying $2.1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the ride-hailing service of exaggerating how much money drivers could make while the company was trying to recover from a steep downturn in demand during the pandemic
  - Associated Press, 01 November 2024

• [ATT]
  $950,000 - AT&T has agreed to pay $950,000 to resolve a Federal Communications Commission investigation into an August 2023 outage of 911 calls in four states
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 August 2024