Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response

A New Mexico jury on Friday “found Facebook liable for deceiving users” about its privacy protections, reports the Associated Press. A New Mexico newspaper calls it “another massive legal victory” against Facebook, reporting that the jury found Facebook “had committed tens of millions of violations of the state’s Unfair Practices Act in connection with its lies to consumers about how their personal information was handled by the company and third-party users.” The state has asked the company be ordered to pay the maximum civil penalty of $5,000 per violation meaning a judge could potentially o