{
  "id": 16070865,
  "title": "Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-after-court-finds-43-million-privacy",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-22T16:12:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-after.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}