Meta Hit With $25 Billion Fine in Cambridge Analytica Privacy Case

Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion Wednesday after New Mexico Judge Francis J. Mathew imposed one of the largest penalties ever levied against a tech company for misleading Facebook users about its data privacy practices. The ruling stems from a 2021 lawsuit tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the political consulting firm obtained personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users without their consent. A jury found Sept. 25 that Meta committed more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection laws, according to Reuters. The company plans to appeal the . . .