Judge Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion Over Decade-Old Facebook Scandal

A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for deceiving Facebook users about privacy a decade ago. Last month, the company was found liable for not being honest with users about a data breach involving Cambridge Analytica in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.

A New Mexico jury found 43 million violations of the state’s consumer protection law, and prosecutors sought the maximum penalty of $5,000 for each one. That would’ve resulted in a total…