Santa Fe43 million deception violations cost Meta $25 billion.
It is 5 times the $5 billion the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook in 2019.
State law allows $5,000 a violation, about $215 billion here, and Judge Francis Mathew cut it to $25 billion.
Meta says it does not sell user data and New Mexico never proved a consumer was misled.
Meta will appeal, which could cut the sum, and all proceeds go to New Mexico’s schools.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 400+ reports worldwide
- Aol leans critical
- quotes Meta's 'tax on speech' line and its appeal, against the attorney general's 'signal to Silicon Valley'
- France 24
- places the $25bn ruling against the $18bn 48-state settlement as a scale benchmark
- Al Jazeera Online
- quotes Meta's 'shocking to the conscience' $40bn argument and the 'they didn't hear or see' harm defence
- TRT World
- reports the judge's own finding that the penalty was over $219bn before cutting it to $25bn
- The Record leans critical
- details the 15% annual interest accruing until payment and the 'willfulness' language from the court filing
Sources: Aol, France 24, Al Jazeera Online, TRT World, The Record