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Meta fined $25bn for years of lies about user data
A New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay twenty five billion dollars for deliberately misleading the public about how it shared Facebook user data with third parties.
In brief
A New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay twenty five billion dollars for deliberately misleading the public about how it shared Facebook user data with third parties. Meta was ordered to pay twenty five billion dollars for willfully lying to the public for over eleven years about sharing Facebook user data with third…
Meta ordered to pay record fine
A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay twenty five billion dollars following a trial that found it had spent years lying about how it handled Facebook user data.
The lies went to the heart of Facebook
The judge said Meta's deceptions extended beyond data practices to the core of Facebook's business. Meta executives had repeatedly claimed user data was never sold or shared with third parties, when it actually had been.
“The lies extend beyond Facebook's data practices as well. They went to the heart of Facebook's core business practices.”
Violations spanned more than eleven years
Judge Francis Mathew found Meta's violations were willful and spanned more than eleven years, from two thousand ten to two thousand twenty one.Communications between senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, were designed to mislead the public.
New Mexico's pattern of enforcement
New Mexico has been one of Meta's most notable adversaries in court. The state also fined Meta almost one billion dollars this year for misleading the public about the safety of its social media platforms…
The main idea
Meta was ordered to pay twenty five billion dollars for willfully lying to the public for over eleven years about sharing Facebook user data with third parties.
