New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Facebook claims
Original title: Facebook’s misleading privacy claims land Meta a $25 billion penalty
A jury found 26 misleading statements and 43,899,725 violations; penalties go to New Mexico schools, not users.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found Facebook misled consumers about data practices, hate speech, and misinformation under the state's Unfair Practices Act. New Mexico sued in 2021 after Cambridge Analytica obtained personal information from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app, and the case also covered later representations. The judge said a penalty above $219 billion was warranted but reduced it to $25 billion, citing a prior $5 billion FTC penalty in 2019. Meta says it expects to win on appeal.
Unconfirmed: Meta disputes the findings, denies selling user information, and says it expects to prevail on appeal.
- The jury found 26 misleading statements and 43,899,725 counted violations.
- State law allows up to $5,000 per violation; the count is audience reach, not people harmed.
- Attorney General Raúl Torrez said the money is directed to New Mexico's school system.
- Meta's chief legal officer, C.J. Mahoney, called the suit an attempt to tax speech.
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3 min read at malwarebytes.com
Users were misled about who could access their personal information on Facebook. Now Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion.
By @MetallicaMVP · malwarebytes.com
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