Meta ordered to pay $25 billion over Facebook privacy

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion over Facebook privacy

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms on Wednesday to pay twenty-five billion dollars after a jury found the company misled Facebook users about data privacy and content moderation. The Cambridge Analytica case concerned one point four million Facebook users in the state, and the judge cut a two hundred nineteen point five billion dollar penalty after more than forty-three million violations were found.

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