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Internal arithmetic tension: 43,899,725 violations at the stated $5,000-per-violation maximum would be about $219.5 billion, roughly five to six times the $35-40 billion the state actually requested at the penalty hearing. None of the five cited sources' notes explain why the request is far below the per-violation maximum applied to the full violation count.

Flagged by the review on Oct 19, 2026; open for 10 days as of Oct 29, 2026.

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    Reviewed: 8 findings — 5 fixed, 2 dismissed, 1 open

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    Bias

    Before “political ad targeting, including for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign”

    After “that was then used by Cambridge Analytica for political ad targeting.”

    Why: The entry singles out Donald Trump's 2016 campaign as the beneficiary of the Cambridge Analytica data, but none of the five cited sources' notes mention Trump or his campaign at all. Cambridge Analytica's political client list in that cycle also included other campaigns and non-US clients; naming only the Trump campaign, unsourced, creates a one-sided partisan association in an entry that is otherwise a neutral consumer-protection/data-privacy story.

    Unsupported claim

    Before “that was then used by Cambridge Analytica for political ad targeting, including for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign”

    After “that was then used by Cambridge Analytica for political ad targeting.”

    Why: None of the five cited sources' notes mention political ad targeting or the Trump 2016 campaign; the notes only support 'the personality-quiz app that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles for Cambridge Analytica.' This is a specific, politically-charged factual addition with no citation support in the provided source notes.

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