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Any business in America can be hauled into a New Mexico kangaroo court on some cockamamie theory, with zero evidence anyone ever suffered as a result, and fined more than the value of your entire company — and unable to appeal unless you can cough up even more cash to post bond.

Private plaintiffs' lawyers stand to collect up to $1.27 billion from New Mexico if the state's $25 billion court win against Meta Platforms this week is upheld, according to a Reuters review of a contract with the state.

A judge and the state AG say Facebook didn’t block enough political speech.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez entered into politics with a 2016 run for district attorney backed by more than $100,000 in spending from a George Soros-funded super PAC.

A New Mexico judge has ordered Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a court filing issued Wednesday. The post New Mexico Judge Orders Meta To Pay $25 Billion in Cambridge Analytica Case appeared first on Breitbart .

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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 firm involved in Donald Trump ’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users ⁠without their consent. “Facebook’s wrongdoing – ⁠over the course of ​years and systematically broadcast to the public – goes to the heart of Facebook’s core business practices,” Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order following the verdict. Continue reading...

The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.

The penalty in New Mexico stems from a lawsuit about a data privacy scandal that Facebook faced more than eight years ago.

A state jury found the social-media giant liable for misleading the state’s consumers.

The $25 billion penalty comes after jurors found Meta committed more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection laws.

A New Mexico judge is ordering Meta to pay a massive $25 billion in penalties on Wednesday, an order that may empower the state’s far-Left attorney general to force the platform to reinstate censorship tools that it did away with after the 2024 election. The case initially targeted Meta, the parent company of Facebook, over ...

Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties related to Cambridge Analytica scandal in New Mexico.

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 can face significant financial consequences for misleading users about their privacy. Driving the news: Judge Francis Mathew determined the penalty amount Wednesday, handing New Mexico a win as the only state to take its claims to trial after 48 others settled. Mathew concluded New Mexico was entitled to $219.5 billion based on the state's maximum $5,000 penalty multiplied by 43,899,720 violations. He reduced that to $25 billion. Meta did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment. The company has previously said it expects to appeal the decision. Catch up quick: In September, a New Mexico jury said Meta had committed 43 million "willful violations" of the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act. Mathew found that Facebook's privacy controls failed to give users meaningful control over their data and that third-party app developers could access their information through the platform's systems. Mathew found Mark Zuckerberg knew users didn't understand how data privacy works, and exploited that, noting that the CEO had once written that users "probably don't understand their current privacy settings or care about who sees their updates." Zuckerberg also wrote that the company should give users "a chance to change their privacy settings but obviously don't encourage it." Zoom out: The suit followed reporting that revealed data firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from more than 50 million Facebook users to craft political ads during the 2016 election. After the scandal, Facebook promised more transparency, but the court found Meta failed to consistently inform users when their data was misused. Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information throughout.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a trial that found it lied to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.

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

The verdict should be seen as a warning for tech companies that New Mexico will hold them accountable, state Attorney General Raúl Torrez said at a news conference.