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Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case

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Meta Platforms 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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