New York Times: On Wednesday, Judge Francis J. Mathew of the Santa Fe court issued the landmark penalty, writing that the company and its executives purposefully misled the public.
“The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate, and goes to the heart of Facebook’s basic business proposition,” Judge Mathew wrote in a 20-page judgment. He said the “extraordinary number of willful violations” that repeated over years “support the highest level of penalty.”…