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Meta ordered to pay 25 billion dollars in New Mexico privacy suit

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay a civil penalty over misleading privacy statements stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

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A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms Incorporated to pay 25 billion dollars in civil penalties to the state on October 21, 2026. Reuters, Engadget, and Bloomberg Tech reported that the legal ruling penalized the company for making misleading statements about consumer data privacy. [1][2][7]

The lawsuit was originally filed in 2021 and targeted misleading claims made by Facebook regarding user privacy. According to Engadget and Bloomberg Tech, the case was spurred by the nearly decade-old Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. Bloomberg Tech described the penalty as one of the largest verdicts in United States legal history. [2][7]

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez stated in a press conference that holding large technology companies accountable has been a long time coming, according to Engadget citing Reuters. New Mexico is located in the Southwestern region of the United States and has its state capital in Santa Fe. [2][12]

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In short

  • Meta was ordered to pay a 25 billion dollar civil penalty to New Mexico.
  • The lawsuit was filed in 2021 and addressed misleading statements about consumer privacy.
  • The legal action was spurred by the decade-old Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy caseReuters, 13d ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Meta ordered to cough up $25 billion in New Mexico privacy caseEngadget, 13d ago
  3. [3]Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacyNBC News, 13d ago
  4. [4]Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion after jury finds it deceived Facebook users about privacyThe Economic Times, 13d ago
  5. [5]Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in user privacy caseMashable, 13d ago
  6. [6]Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica caseCNBC Tech, 13d ago
  7. [7]Meta to Pay Historic $25 Billion in New Mexico Deception CaseBloomberg Tech, 13d ago
  8. [8]Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy caseThe Guardian, 13d ago
  9. [9]Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica caseCNBC, 13d ago
  10. [10]Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy ViolationsThe New York Times, 13d ago
  11. [11]Meta to Pay Historic $25 Billion in New Mexico Deception CaseBloomberg.com, 13d ago

Background

  1. [12]New Mexico on Wikipedia
  2. [13]New Mexico on Grokipedia
  3. [14]US bans DeepSeek AI software across federal civilian agencies FTMQ Tech, 15d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 14 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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