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Judge rips Trump ally’s ‘clearly intentional’ deception with historic penalty: report

A judge unloaded on a company run by one of President Donald Trump's most powerful tech allies for years of deliberate deception. New Mexico state court Judge Francis Mathew ordered Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms to pay a $25 billion civil penalty for misleading the public about Facebook's privacy practices after the Cambridge Analytica scandal,…

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