Meta fined $25 billion in New Mexico over Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Hiru News and Ada Derana report that Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico in a case concerning data privacy. The reports identify Meta as the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, according to Daily Mirror.
Daily Mirror describes the penalty as the largest ever imposed on Meta for its business practices. Hiru News’ Sinhala headline characterizes the case as involving the company misleading the public about user data; the English reports describe it more generally as a data privacy case.
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