Meta to pay $25B in New Mexico case over misleading Facebook users
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A $25B penalty over privacy and hate-speech disclosures — 43M+ violations — shows that user trust failures can now carry balance-sheet-scale consequences. If you’re deploying AI-driven targeting or ranking, treat transparency and consent as financial risk controls, not just compliance checkboxes.
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