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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations

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The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.

What the coverage shows

Both outlets focus on the same core development: a large penalty against Meta tied to privacy and the Cambridge Analytica matter. The New York Times frames it through a New Mexico lawsuit over misleading users about data privacy, while CNBC foregrounds the case name and calls it a penalty in the New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case. Only the Times extract explicitly says it was one of the largest levied against the company.

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