Update: It's a $24.6 million fine for Meta.

Apologies for two emails in one day, but this seemed worth a short update to this morning’s newsletter: Seattle Judge Douglass North has just ordered Meta to pay $24,660,000 to the State of Washington for 822 violations of the state's unusually strong law mandating transparency in online political ads.

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who filed suit against Meta over its insufficient political ad disclosures back in 2020, when Meta was still Facebook, said in a statement: "I have one word for Facebook’s conduct in this case — arrogance."

You can read more about today’s ruling in a Twitter thread I have going right here, and I’ll likely have more to say about Judge North’s order in a newsletter I’ll send out the near(ish) future.