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If you thought Meta’s self-inflicted blows from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal were over, think again. On Wednesday, a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay the state $25 billion in penalties, having found that the company made misleading statements about the privacy of consumers in the state. “It has been a long…

A New Mexico jury has found Meta violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act and misled residents about their privacy and how the company handles misinformation, Reuters reports. The trial was the result of a 2021 lawsuit filed by the state in response to Meta’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data harvested from Facebook was used…