Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
The judge cut an initial $219.5 billion award after jurors found more than 43 million privacy violations tied to Cambridge Analytica.
- On Wednesday, Judge Francis Mathew ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties after a jury found the company misled users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook.
- New Mexico was the only state to pursue a trial regarding the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal after 48 other states accepted an $18 billion settlement in August.
- Jurors concluded Meta committed over 43 million violations, prompting New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez to seek up to $40 billion; defense attorneys argued any penalty exceeding $3.4 billion would be unconstitutional.
- Meta plans to appeal the verdict, arguing the penalty is "shocking to the conscience," while Torrez announced the awarded funds will support the state's education system.
- Beyond the financial penalty, the state is seeking an injunction to stop Meta from continuing the practices that led to the jury's finding of liability in the privacy case.
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Meta, Facebook's parent company, must pay $25 billion because it misled users about how and by whom their data was used. Facebook knew that other parties had access to user data but denied this. The judge in the US state of New Mexico is therefore imposing the billion-dollar fine on the social media company today. The ruling follows a case surrounding the scandal at data company Cambridge Analytica. That data company misused tens of millions of…
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties over the Cambridge Analytica scandal
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta after a New Mexico judge ordered it to pay $25 billion in penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law. The ruling marks the biggest legal hit Meta has taken this year, even as it's faced several other losses or […]
It is a punishment of historical proportions for the parent company of Facebook: Meta has to pay 25 billion dollars because of the data protection scandal around Cambridge Analytica. The company has violated the privacy of its users – in dozens of millions of cases.
Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25B
A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 trillion after a jury found the company binding for deceving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook. Judge Francis Mathew handed down the amount, which state Attorney General Raúl Torrez described as "one of the broad, if...
The documentation presented revealed that the state was awarded 219 billion dollars, but the fine was finally reduced to 25 billion dollars.
Judge orders Meta to pay US$25 billion to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica case
A New Mexico judge ruled Wednesday that Meta must pay US$25 billion to the state after a jury found last month that the social media giant had deceived users in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to media reports.
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