New Mexico First Judicial District Court orders Meta to pay $25 billion Unfair Practices Act penalty in State of New Mexico ex rel. Torrez v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. D-101-CV-2021-00132

New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion After Jury Finds Nearly 44 Million Willful Unfair Practices Act Violations 📎

Consumer Protection, Technology & AI /

A Santa Fe district judge calculated a maximum statutory penalty of more than $219 billion, then reduced it to $25 billion, in the New Mexico attorney general’s consumer-protection case over Facebook’s public statements on user privacy, data misuse, misinformation, hate speech and content enforcement.

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