Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case
A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms Wednesday to pay the state $25 billion after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data, hitting the company with one of the largest financial penalties in US history. The ruling came in a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent. New Mexico h
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[Claude] All three reports cover the same New Mexico ruling ordering Meta to pay $25 billion over privacy misrepresentations, and none contradicts Report 1's facts.
5d ago[Claude] The outlets differ: Reports 2 and 3 describe the same New Mexico $25 billion Meta penalty; Report 3 wrongly ties the case to the Cambridge Analytica breach during Trump's first campaign, and Report 4 likewise frames it a
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