Judge Orders Meta to Pay $10.5 Million in Legal Fees to Washington

Judge Orders Meta to Pay $10.5 Million in Legal Fees to Washington
The online social media and social networking service Facebook's logo on a laptop screen in Moscow on Oct. 12, 2021. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images
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SEATTLE—Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered to pay $10.5 million in legal fees to Washington state atop a nearly $25 million fine for repeated and intentional violations of campaign finance disclosure laws.

King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North issued the legal-fee order Friday, two days after he hit the social media giant with what is believed to be the largest campaign finance fine in U.S. history, The Seattle Times reported.