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 Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
10/21/26 01:00 PM
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Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
PUBLISHED WED, OCT 21 20261:21 PM EDTUPDATED 35 MIN AGO
KEY POINTS
*Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in New Mexico.
*The penalty comes after a jury in a Santa Fe courthouse found the social media giant liable for misleading state citizens about how it safeguards and collects user data.
*A New Mexico district court judge said in the filing that “Facebook did not conduct the comprehensive investigation that it promised” following the Cambridge Analytica revelations
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was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed from the company’s Cambridge Analytica scandal from nearly a decade ago.
The penalty, revealed in a court filing, comes after a jury in a Santa Fe courthouse found in September the social media giant liable for misleading state citizens about how it safeguards and collects user data and prevents harmful information from flourishing on its services.
Although the jury concluded that Meta had more than 43 million violations of the state’s unfair practices act, with each transgression carrying a civil penalty as high as $5,000, a New Mexico judge was responsible for determining the ultimate fine. The Wednesday filing showed that the state was awarded $219.5 billion, but the penalty was ultimately reduced to $25 billion……
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html?msockid=2faee43412f3615c1a6cf2c1138c6066
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