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Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion after jury finds it deceived Facebook users about privacy

Economic Times - Tech · 21 October 2026 at 10:57 pm

Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion after jury finds it deceived Facebook users about privacy

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.

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

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