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Jury Finds Meta Deceived Users About Privacy, Content Moderation

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The New Mexico jury’s verdict came after a two-week trial that largely focused on the Cambridge Analytica debacle.

A New Mexico jury on Friday determined Meta violated the state’s consumer protection law by misleading consumers about Facebook’s privacy practices and content policies.

The verdict came after a two-week trial that reportedly largely centered on the highly publicized decade-old Cambridge Analytica debacle, in which the defunct political consultancy obtained data about tens of millions of Facebook users.