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The verdict followed a two-week trial over a lawsuit filed by New Mexico ’s attorney general in 2021, three years after new s reports revealed that personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users had been harvested through a third-party app and used in efforts to profile voters. The lawsuit accused the company of making statements that misled New Mexicans about how their personal information would be shared with third parties; how it handled hate speech and misinformation on the platform; and whether it gave some users preference in how it applies its policies. Facebook did not tell consumers it was selling their data to outsiders, and it allowed hate speech or misinformation from users to be shared on the platform when it helped the company’s bottom line, attorneys for the state said. Following the verdict, Judge Francis Mathew will determine how much in monetary penalties Meta must pay for the violations found by the jury . The state’s lawsuit focused on specific statements, including comments made by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg or in company blog posts, that New Mexico said made people believe they had control over the personal information they shared on the site, or that the site had blanket policies for how it dealt with hate speech or misinformation. In reality, Meta was selling the data to third-party apps, like the one that Cambridge Analytica relied on, and had exceptions to its policies for certain users, the state said. Attorneys for Meta had argued at trial that the allegedly misleading statements were cherry-picked snippets that ignored critical context from the same statements, in which the company had repeatedly acknowledged its handling of misinformation or privacy issues was not perfect. The company is constantly improving and does not benefit from harmful content being shared on its platform, they said. Meta also denied that it sells users’ information. 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