By Xu Yuan, Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes ( September 25, 2026, 18:29 GMT | Insight) -- Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, lost a lopsided jury verdict following a trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a jury of 12 finding that the company made deceptive or unfair statements in 31 of the 34 statements about its handling of users' personal data, including over its policies leading up to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in 2018.Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, violated New Mexico law by making misleading statements concerning its privacy and misinformation practices leading up to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in 2018, a jury in a state court found....
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