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A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform in the latest legal setback against the social media giant that has already cost it ...

Cambridge Analytica, the British marketing analytics firm, announced Wednesday that it was closing and would file for insolvency in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the ...

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 file photo the icons of Facebook and WhatsApp are pictured on an iPhone in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner ...

The tech world has been plunged into chaos by revelations that the Facebook data of 50 million Facebook users was misused to target political ads for the 2016 presidential election. We’ve collected ...

The tale of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal is long — and it keeps costing Meta gargantuan sums of money. On Wednesday, a judge ordered the social media giant to initiate its biggest payout yet: ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico has started arguments in its case against Meta, accusing the company of exposing data from 350,000 New Mexicans in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and not being forthcoming ...

The psychologist behind an app that harvested data from up to 87 million Facebook users defended his role in the scandal Sunday, saying he “never heard a word” of opposition from the social media ...

Nearly a Decade After the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, New Mexico Alone Is Taking Facebook to Trial Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting ...

Senator asks Facebook CEO to testify on Instagram and kids WASHINGTON (AP) — The senator leading a probe of Facebook's Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark ...