New Mexico

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about data privacy, a judgment the state attorney general described as one of the largest state verdicts against a company in American history. Judge Francis Mathew handed down the amount, which the state said will go toward education funding, following a jury ruling in September that Meta committed over 43 million willful violations of state consumer protection laws linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $25bn in penalties for data privacy violations stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in one of the largest state-level fines ever imposed on a technology company. The ruling follows a jury verdict in September that found Meta guilty of misleading state citizens about its data collection and safeguarding practices.

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion to the state after a jury found the social media company liable for deceiving consumers about its data privacy policies, in what State Attorney General Raúl Torrez described as “one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history.”