⚖️ New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found the company violated the state's unfair practices law more than 43 million times by misleading Facebook users about data privacy and content moderation.
Judge Francis J. Mathew issued the ruling Wednesday, reducing a September jury award of $219 billion. The case, filed in 2021, stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the UK political consultancy harvested Facebook user data for campaign purposes during the 2016 election. Attorney General Raúl Torrez called it "one of the single largest, if not the largest, single state verdict" against a company in U.S. history.
Meta plans to appeal. The ruling follows an $18 billion child-safety settlement Meta reached with a group of U.S. states. While 48 states settled similar claims, New Mexico pursued its case independently.
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A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found the company violated the state's unfair practices law more than 43 million times by misleading Facebook users about data privacy and content moderation.
Judge Francis J. Mathew issued the ruling Wednesday, reducing a September jury award of $219 billion. The case, filed in 2021, stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the UK political consultancy harvested Facebook user data for campaign purposes during the 2016 election. Attorney General Raúl Torrez called it "one of the single largest, if not the largest, single state verdict" against a company in U.S. history.
Meta plans to appeal. The ruling follows an $18 billion child-safety settlement Meta reached with a group of U.S. states. While 48 states settled similar claims, New Mexico pursued its case independently.
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