The tail of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal is long — and it keeps costing Meta gargantuan sums of money. On Wednesday, a judge ordered the social media giant to initiate its biggest payout yet: $25 billion to the state of New Mexico for the tech giant’s role in deceiving resident users over its data privacy practices, The New York Times reports . The huge sum follows a two-week trial in which a New Mexico jury deliberated over the company’s alleged wrongdoing. The jury found t…
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