Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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The fine issued Wednesday by state court Judge Francis Mathew is among the largest verdicts ever issued in United States legal history.
The award comes after a jury in Santa Fe determined that Meta had violated the state’s consumer protection laws over 43 million times based on dozens of widely viewed deceptive statements made by the company and its top executives about how it handled hate speech and user data.
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