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Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

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(AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about...

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  1. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25B for deceiving users about Facebook privacy (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    The Meta logo is displayed on a smartphone screen with the company’s logo in the background in Creteil, France, on Sept. 9, 2026.

  2. MyNorthwest

    Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion after Cambridge Analytica trial (opens MyNorthwest)

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    A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook. Judge Francis Mathew handed down the amount. The state had sought $35 billion to $40 billion.

  3. Bangor Daily News

    Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica breach (opens Bangor Daily News)

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    A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving 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 largest,…

  4. Independent Journal Review

    Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion (opens Independent Journal Review)

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    A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company made millions of misleading statements about Facebook users’ privacy and content moderation, in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

  5. ABC 7 Chicago

    Judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion for violating New Mexico law in the Cambridge Analytica data breach (opens ABC 7 Chicago)

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    A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies.

  6. KRQE Albuquerque

    Judge orders Meta to pay State of New Mexico $25 billion (opens KRQE Albuquerque)

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    NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A judge has ordered Facebook parent company Meta to pay the State of New Mexico $25 billion, for violations of the state's unfair practices act. A jury found Facebook lied to consumers, by claiming the company protects its users' personal data and keeps harmful misinformation off…

  7. Honolulu Star-Advertiser

    Meta ordered to pay $25B over misleading Facebook users (opens Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

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    A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25 billion today after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users without th…

  8. WSVN Miami

    Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook (opens WSVN Miami)

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    (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about...

  9. Quartz

    Meta ordered to pay $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica data privacy (opens Quartz)

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    The penalty was cut from $219.5 billion after a jury found more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's unfair practices act

  10. New York Post

    Meta ordered to pay $25B to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica scandal over user data in 2016 election (opens New York Post)

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    The state's attorney general had sued Meta in 2021 following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, had harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app.

  11. BBC News

    Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy (opens BBC News)

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    The fine is the largest to date against Facebook's owner, larger than an $18bn deal with California.

  12. KOB 4

    New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica data scandal (opens KOB 4)

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    Meta must pay $25 billion after a New Mexico jury found them guilty of more than 43 million violations in a Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

  13. ABC News

    Meta ordered to pay $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook (opens ABC News)

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    A judge has ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation on Facebook

  14. Insider

    Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty over the Cambridge Analytica case (opens Insider)

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    The $25 billion penalty could be the largest against Meta in the company's history.

  15. HuffPost

    Meta Hit With $25 Billion Judgment For Deceiving New Mexico Users About Privacy (opens HuffPost)

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    Forty-eight other states settled with Facebook; New Mexico chose to take the social media company to court on its own.

  16. The Hill

    Judge orders Meta to pay New Mexico $25B in Cambridge Analytica case (opens The Hill)

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    A judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) announced the judge's order Wednesday, calling it "one of the single largest, if n…

  17. KVIA El Paso

    Judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion for deceiving Facebook users about privacy (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    SANTA FE, N.M. (KVIA) -- Wednesday, a judge ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy policies on Facebook. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced the verdict in the state's landmark Cambridge Anal…

  18. Fortune

    New Mexico took on Meta alone and won a $25 billion judgment over Facebook’s privacy violations (opens Fortune)

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    While 48 states settled, New Mexico pursued its own case over Facebook’s privacy practices. Meta plans to appeal the $25 billion judgment.

  19. The Guardian

    Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case (opens The Guardian)

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    Jury had found Meta misled consumers after Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained user data without consent A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25bn on ⁠Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting …

  20. Variety

    Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion in New Mexico Data Privacy Case (opens Variety)

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    A New Mexico state judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable last month for deceiving users about Facebook‘s data privacy and content moderation policies. The judgment by state judge Francis Mathew capped a yearslong legal case waged by the state, which…

  21. CBS News

    Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico in data privacy ruling (opens CBS News)

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    A jury found that the social media company had deceived consumers for years about its data privacy policies.

  22. MS Now

    Meta ordered to pay $25 billion over data privacy deception (opens MS Now)

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    A New Mexico judge cited the “clear intentional and systematic nature of Facebook’s repeated misstatements” in levying the “highest level of penalty.”

  23. Investor's Business Daily

    Meta Hit With $25 Billion Penalty In New Mexico Data Privacy Case (opens Investor's Business Daily)

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    Meta stock was largely unmoved despite the company getting slapped with a $25 billion fine in New Mexico.

  24. Axios

    Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users (opens Axios)

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    A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties Wednesday after a jury found in September that the social media giant misled users about their data privacy. Why it matters: The penalties come nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke and signal that Big Tech c…

  25. Washington Examiner

    Meta hit with $25 billion penalty over Cambridge Analytica data privacy violations (opens Washington Examiner)

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    A New Mexico court ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay a $25 billion penalty over data privacy violations connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The whopping penalty comes more than eight years after the stories of the data-harvesting scandal first broke and sparked political…

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