Thursday, October 22, 2026

Meta must pay New Mexico $25 billion, its biggest fine ever, for deceiving users about Facebook privacy | PBS News

Jurors in September found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws when a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested Facebook user data to generate targeted political ads for the 2016 election. 

"Facebook promised users that they (the users) controlled their data. This was false," Judge Francis J. Matthew wrote in his judgement…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/meta-must-pay-new-mexico-25-billion-its-biggest-fine-ever-for-deceiving-users-about-facebook-privacy


 

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