New Mexico asked a state judge for up to $40 billion from Meta after a jury found more than 43 million violations of its Unfair Practices Act. That is seven to eight times Meta's 2019 FTC settlement, sought over public statements about privacy and hate speech.
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New Mexico jurors found Facebook broke the state's Unfair Practices Act nearly 44 million times, at up to $5,000 per violation. A judge sets the penalty in the coming weeks from findings that Facebook's public statements about data sharing misled its users.
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Santa Fe jurors counted 31 misleading Meta statements on privacy and moderation as about 43 million violations of New Mexico law. Judge Francis Matthew sets the rate on Oct. 1, and at the $5,000 cap the state wants, one statement carries up to $10.5 billion.
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Meta lost a second New Mexico consumer-protection jury trial this year, on findings the state's lawyer counts as 43.9 million violations worth up to $5,000 each. A judge sets the penalty next, and that same lawyer expects Meta's appeal to hold back any cash for four or five years.
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Meta's $16.68bn child-harm settlement prices platform design as a cleanup liability
The headline number is a ceiling, not a commitment. The durable cost sits in a 90-hour monthly cap on minors, an overnight notification blackout, and an abatement fund modelled on pollution law.
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