{"id":165516,"date":"2026-10-22T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/22\/its-never-great-when-a-judge-has-to-use-the-phrase-systematic-pattern-of-deception\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:57:55","slug":"its-never-great-when-a-judge-has-to-use-the-phrase-systematic-pattern-of-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/22\/its-never-great-when-a-judge-has-to-use-the-phrase-systematic-pattern-of-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Never Great When A Judge Has To Use The Phrase \u2018Systematic Pattern Of Deception\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facebook\u2019s misrepresentations about users\u2019 control of their data were not isolated incidents, but rather a systematic pattern of deception at the core of Facebook\u2019s business model.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 New Mexico District Court Judge Francis Mathew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/21\/tech\/meta-25-billion-new-mexico-judgment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handing down<\/a> a $25 billion penalty to Meta for what he described as a \u201ccoherent strategy designed to mislead the public.\u201d Last month, a jury found Meta had violated the state\u2019s Unfair Practices Act more than 43 million times over its privacy practices in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/its-never-great-when-a-judge-has-to-use-the-phrase-systematic-pattern-of-deception\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Never Great When A Judge Has To Use The Phrase \u2018Systematic Pattern Of Deception\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/08\/Benchslapped-01-300x241.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Facebook\u2019s misrepresentations about users\u2019 control of their data were not isolated incidents, but rather a systematic pattern of deception at the core of Facebook\u2019s business model.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 New Mexico District Court Judge Francis Mathew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/21\/tech\/meta-25-billion-new-mexico-judgment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handing down<\/a> a $25 billion penalty to Meta for what he described as a \u201ccoherent strategy designed to mislead the public.\u201d Last month, a jury found Meta had violated the state\u2019s Unfair Practices Act more than 43 million times over its privacy practices in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s misrepresentations about users\u2019 control of their data were not isolated incidents, but rather a systematic pattern of deception at the core of Facebook\u2019s business model. \u2014 New Mexico District Court Judge Francis Mathew handing down a $25 billion penalty to Meta for what he described as a \u201ccoherent strategy designed to mislead the public.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}