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Received yesterday — 23 October 2026 ⏭ El País - English

Meta’s annus horribilis: Why it was hit with the largest fine ever imposed on a tech company

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By: Manu González Pascual
23 October 2026 at 10:03

2026 has not been a good year for Meta. On Wednesday, a judge in New Mexico ordered the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to pay a fine of about $25 billion after finding it guilty of misleading Facebook users about its data privacy policies.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg puts on a Meta Ray-Ban smart glass at the corporate event Meta Connect, held on September 17.
Received — 14 October 2026 ⏭ El País - English

Websites down and bots disabled: The unexpected consequences of bombing data centers

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By: Manu González Pascual
14 October 2026 at 09:34

Ukraine has struck a major blow to Russia’s digital infrastructure. Since last Thursday, Ukrainian drones have carried out a series of attacks that destroyed three large data centers belonging to Yandex — known as “the Kremlin’s Google”— on the outskirts of Moscow. The Yandex Taxi ride-hailing app and the group’s payments service, Yandex Pay, have been temporarily taken offline. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy even said the bombings disabled Russian bots.

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A member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps salutes next to a drone during a parade on September 18.
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