💼 New Mexico Judge Orders Meta To Pay $25 Billion
A New Mexico state judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about Facebook's data privacy and content moderation policies, in a ruling tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Judge Francis J. Mathew issued the judgment following a finding of more than 43 million violations of state consumer protection laws. "Facebook's wrongdoing — over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public — goes to the heart of Facebook's core business practices," Mathew wrote. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez called it "one of the single largest, if not the largest, single state" penalties of its kind.
The case centered on Meta's handling of user data that Cambridge Analytica exploited for campaign purposes during the 2016 election. The ruling could be the largest penalty in Meta's history, surpassing an $18 billion child-safety settlement the company reached with a group of U.S. states. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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A New Mexico state judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about Facebook's data privacy and content moderation policies, in a ruling tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Judge Francis J. Mathew issued the judgment following a finding of more than 43 million violations of state consumer protection laws. "Facebook's wrongdoing — over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public — goes to the heart of Facebook's core business practices," Mathew wrote. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez called it "one of the single largest, if not the largest, single state" penalties of its kind.
The case centered on Meta's handling of user data that Cambridge Analytica exploited for campaign purposes during the 2016 election. The ruling could be the largest penalty in Meta's history, surpassing an $18 billion child-safety settlement the company reached with a group of U.S. states. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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