Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties over the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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The Cambridge Analytica ungraded has travel backmost to haunt Meta aft a New Mexico justice ordered it to wage $25 cardinal successful penalties for much than 43 cardinal violations of the state's unfair practices law. The ruling marks the biggest ineligible deed Meta has taken this year, adjacent arsenic it's faced respective different losses oregon settlements.

A New Mexico jury ruled successful September that Meta misled consumers implicit however it protected their information and prevented misinformation and hatred code connected its platforms. The lawsuit stemmed from a 2021 ailment successful the aftermath of the revelations a fewer years earlier that UK governmental consultancy Cambridge Analytica harvested information from millio …

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