States agreed to ‘fully, finally, and forever’ release Meta from claims they didn’t know existed — with $459 million for Cambridge Analytica claims

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“The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” wrote a New Mexico judge who ordered tech giant Meta to pay one of the largest data privacy case penalties in American history. The US$25 billion fine came in a case about how Trump campaign firm Cambridge Analytica deceptively used data from Facebook users without their permission to create psychographic profiles to target voters in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. But the New Mexico penalty was for statements Facebook made that deceived users about data privacy and its response to Cambridge Analytica – not for the harm caused by how the harvested data was used. Those harms are alleged to include exploiting psychological vulnerabilities, targeting people’s fears and discouraging them from voting. I’m a political communication scholar who studies propaganda, surveillance and information warfare. My research helped expose the Cambridge Analytica scandal through U.K. newspaper The Guardian’s reporting on whistelblower…

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