Policy · Updated 22 Oct, 10:02 am IST

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica case

Why it matters for readers: This is a major legal outcome tied to a well-known data-harvesting scandal that affected millions of users.

A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading state citizens about data practices related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.1 2
A judge reduced an initial calculation and set the penalty at $25 billion, following the jury’s finding of millions of violations.1 2
Meta said the ruling makes business in New Mexico difficult and stated it is confident it will prevail on appeal.2
The case stems from Cambridge Analytica obtaining Facebook user data via a personality quiz app that reached tens of millions of people.2

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