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New Mexico took on Meta alone and won a $25 billion judgment over Facebook’s privacy violations

Fortune5 min read

While 48 states settled, New Mexico pursued its own case over Facebook’s privacy practices. Meta plans to appeal the $25 billion judgment.

Judge Francis Mathew handed down the amount, which state Attorney General Raúl Torrez described as “one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history.” Torrez said the verdict should be a warning for tech companies and that New Mexico would continue to hold them accountable. “This judgement should be a signal, an unambiguous message, to Silicon Valley,” Torrez said at a news conference. Under the New Mexico Constitution, fines for violations of consumer protection laws go state education spending. “We may have paid for the construction of schools…

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