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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over claims it misled users regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, far exceeding a $17 billion multistate settlement and potentially emboldening other plaintiffs and attorneys general to pursue bigger payouts in court.
Meta was ordered by a New Mexico court to pay a $25 billion penalty in a data privacy case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, following a jury's finding of over 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices act.
A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections in the Cambridge Analytica data breach case, affecting over 87 million profiles and leading to potential penalties for over 2 million violations.
Mark Zuckerberg's statement on the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal in 2017, which involved the misuse of Facebook data for political purposes.