That's an interesting balancing problem, because if you disincentivize it too much, Facebook can afford to own all the lawyers (so to speak) and grease their wh

That's an interesting balancing problem, because if you disincentivize it too much, Facebook can afford to own all the lawyers (so to speak) and grease their wheels enough (or intimidate them away) that nobody of any consequential skill will pursue the cases (and this is where someone argues that the government should do it instead and it should all be a public legal effort; which is where I point out that Facebook, Google, Amazon etc. are deep in bed with the government). Further, when going after monster corporations it can be both physically dangerous to your well-being and career threatening, so the financial reward should be there to take on a trillion dollar company with tens of billions in annual profit and extreme political clout. Any lawyer willing to try to cut into these extraordinarily evil companies, I say give them the money. The lawyers are being compensated like SEC whistleblowers in a modern war against vast human rights violations, they're mercenaries in a conflict and should probably be compensated as such when they achieve big results.