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Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users

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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties Wednesday after a jury found in September that the social media giant misled users about their data privacy. Why it matters: The penalties come nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke and signal that Big Tech…

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  1. 2026-10-21 19:13 · Axios AI+
    Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users

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