New Mexico Takes Meta to Trial Over Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse

What happened

New Mexico is the only U.S. state proceeding to trial against Meta (Facebook's parent company) over the misuse of AI-driven data harvesting and targeted advertising, which enabled Cambridge Analytica to exploit millions of users' data for political ads during the 2016 election, resulting in significant privacy violations.

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