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A financial penalty approaching $1 billion has been ordered in a case over alleged harm to children on social media.
A penalty, in plain terms, is a punishment a court imposes on a defendant, distinct from a settlement a company agrees to on its own terms.
A New Mexico judge attached that figure to Meta as an extra fine within a lawsuit the state attorney-general filed against the company in 2023.
The 2023 lawsuit: who filed it and why New Mexico's attorney-general, the state's senior law enforcement officer, brought the original action against Meta in 2023.
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