A $25 million penalty to the Met for sharing personal data on Facebook for the trump campaign

A U.S. court on Wednesday ordered Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to pay $25 billion for user fraud regardingpersonal dataprotection . A consultancy that unauthorized accessed data from millions of people using Facebook to promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.

In 2018, the Cambridge Analytica consultbecame known. Mark after Zuckerberg admitted toaccessing personal data on Facebook ,\u00A0 closed the business . The leak affected 87 million profiles and sparked an international scandal over the use of personal information by social networks and the role they played in election campaigns.

Judge Francis Mathew delivered his verdict on September 25 after a jury found that the Met had violated state consumer protection law more than 43 million times. 

  "Facebook's unfair behavior, developed for years and systematically disseminated to the public, affects the core of its business practices," Mathew wrote in his ruling.

According to the ruling, the company kept its promises of such statements, despite internal warnings that it was unable to comply with them, as well as allowing access to data that some business partners had announced would stop sharing in order to avoid loss of income.