Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

By Emma L. Briant, Visiting Associate Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, University of Notre Dame, The Conversation · November 3, 2026

A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.

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