New Mexico jury finds Facebook broke the law 43 million times, and a judge orders it to pay $25 billion
Meta hit with $25B penalty for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook
A New Mexico court ordered Facebook to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found 43,899,725 violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act, tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the company's claims about privacy and harmful content. Attorney General Raúl Torrez pursued the case alone instead of joining a multistate settlement, calling the penalty one of the largest ever against a corporation in U.S. history.
For too long, powerful technology companies have operated as though their size and influence put them beyond the reach of the law.