Facebook’s misrepresentations about users’ control of their data were not isolated incidents, but rather a systematic pattern of deception at the core of Facebook’s business model.
— New Mexico District Court Judge Francis Mathew handing down a $25 billion penalty to Meta for what he described as a “coherent strategy designed to mislead the public.” Last month, a jury found Meta had violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act more than 43 million times over its privacy practices in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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