A New Mexico state court ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to pay a $25 billion civil fine after a jury found the company violated state consumer protection law more than 43 million times. The state attorney general accused Meta of making false statements about user-data protection after the Cambridge Analytica breach and of misleading the public on content moderation and hate-speech policies. The penalty is among the largest civil fines in U.S. judicial history.

2026-10-22

A New Mexico state court ordered Meta Platforms (META.O) to pay a $25 billion civil fine after a jury found the company violated state consumer protection law more than 43 million times. The state attorney general accused Meta of making false statements about user-data protection after the Cambridge Analytica breach and of misleading the public on content moderation and hate-speech policies. The penalty is among the largest civil fines in U.S. judicial history.