Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico in data privacy ruling
Meta has been ordered by a judge in New Mexico to pay $25 billion to the state after a jury found that the social media company deceived consumers for years about its data privacy policies.
Judge Francis Mathew handed down the amount, which New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez described as "one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history."
"This judgment should be a signal, an unambiguous message, to Silicon Valley," Torrez said in a news conference.
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