New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections
The verdict follows a two-week trial over claims that Meta hid how user data was shared and handled hate speech and misinformation.
- On Friday, a Santa Fe jury found Meta misled New Mexico residents about data privacy, hate speech, and misinformation policies in a case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.
- New Mexico filed the lawsuit in 2021, alleging Meta misled users about how personal information was shared with third parties, following 2016 reports that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from as many as 87 million Facebook users.
- Attorneys for the state cited comments from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to demonstrate users were deceived about platform control, while Meta's defense argued the lawsuit relied on 'cherry-picked snippets' and denied it sells user information.
- Following the verdict, Judge Francis Mathew will determine monetary penalties for violations found. New Mexico rejected a broader settlement with 47 states totaling about $16.7 billion, choosing instead to proceed to trial.
- This verdict marks the second time in six months a Santa Fe jury has ruled against Meta, which faces thousands of upcoming lawsuits from school districts and municipalities over platform impacts on users.
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable of deceiving users about their privacy
SANTA FE, New Mexico (KVIA) - The jury in the State of New Mexico vs Facebook, Inc. lawsuit reached a verdict this morning. The platform was found liable for misleading its users about their privacy protections. The case involves allegations of failure from the social media platform to protect its users from third-party link that took personal data from over 87 million profiles according to the court case. Over two million New Mexico residents w…
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Meta misled consumers in case over Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico jury says
A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Meta Platforms misled the state's residents, in a case stemming from allegations that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which had worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.
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