Meta receives a ~$24.7M fine, the maximum possible, after a Washington judge found it had intentionally violated campaign finance disclosure laws 822 times (David Gutman/The Seattle Times)

Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state’s campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined  —  Meta, Facebook’s parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
Ireland’s DPC fines Instagram €405M for violating children’s privacy under GDPR, the second highest fine under the law and the third for a Meta-owned company  —  The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta-owned social media platform Instagram €405 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Samantha Cole / VICE:
Meta permanently bans Pornhub’s Instagram account for “repeatedly violating” its policies, after a three-week suspension and ToS breaches accruing over 10 years  —  Pornhub claims its account was “fully PG,” and cites the uneven treatment of mainstream celebrities like Kim Kardashian …

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fines Meta €265M for failing to safeguard data on 500M+ users from data scrapers, the third fine by the DPC on Meta  —  Company gets new EU privacy fine as bloc tightens regulation of big tech companies  —  A top European regulator fined Facebook …

Bloomberg Law:
A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer an ongoing royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating patents with Facebook and Instagram Live  —  Meta Platforms Inc. must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer Inc. more than $174.5 million in damages after a Texas jury found Wednesday …

Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Microsoft accuses China-backed nation state hackers of abusing the country’s vulnerability disclosure requirements to discover and develop zero-day exploits  —  Microsoft on Friday accused state-backed hackers in China of abusing the country’s vulnerability disclosure requirements in an effort to discover and develop zero-day exploits.