Meta hit with $25 billion penalty in New Mexico privacy case
A Santa Fe jury found Meta Platforms liable for more than 43 million violations of New Mexico’s unfair practices law and ordered the company to pay a $25 billion penalty, which Meta said it will appeal. Earlier, Judge Francis Mathew reduced a previously awarded $219.
5 billion judgment to $25 billion after the jury concluded that Meta misled users about data control. The violations were tied to the Cambridge Analytica data breach and affected tens of millions of state residents.
Actors
Judge Francis Mathew
Meta Platforms Inc.
Hector Balderas
Raúl Torrez
New Mexico district court
Locations
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
New Mexico, United States
