Skip to main content
KnowGovUnderstand. Power. Act.
← Data Lab

The Library

New

One story, all the way down.

Judge orders Meta to pay New Mexico $25B in Cambridge Analytica case

A judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) announced the judge's order Wednesday, calling it "one of the single largest — if not the largest —...

Sources (2)· Oct 21, 6:15 PM to Oct 21, 11:33 PM

JusticeCommerceCulture
Read it

Every telling

their own versions

How it spread

2 articles
  1. firstThe Hill
  2. +5hThe Guardian

The thread

Courts →

Before

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Is Reversing Biden Policies. Why Is His Justice Department Still Defending Them?FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—Federal agencies are continuing to defend some legal positions of the Biden administration, according to an analysis by two conservative groups. Leaders of the groups Power the Future and Defend Forgotten America sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche calling for a comprehensive review of…
The Daily Signal10h agoWhole story →
Justice
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy - Wed, 21 Oct 2026 PSTA judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25 billion on Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users without ​their consent.
Spokane Spokesman-Review11h agoWhole story →
CommerceTechnology

Since

Bite of Seattle shooting suspect released on electronic home monitoring - Wed, 21 Oct 2026 PSTA King County Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered that a 15-year-old suspect in the fatal Bite of Seattle shooting be released from juvenile detention. The boy is accused of firing a handgun indiscriminately into a crowd of people attending the food festival at Seattle Center on July 26. Seattle police arrested him at the scene, and he was charged…
Spokane Spokesman-Review4h agoWhole story →
SecurityJustice

More like this

similar stories in the archive
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy - Wed, 21 Oct 2026 PSTA judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25 billion on Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users without ​their consent.
Spokane Spokesman-Review11h agoWhole story →
CommerceTechnology
'Historic Day': New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion in Data Privacy CaseA New Mexico judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading users about data privacy—and while state Attorney General Raúl Torrez's office touted it as "one of the largest financial penalties against a corporation in US history," it's also just a fraction of the $219.5 billion warranted under the law. The case stems from the Cambridge…
Common Dreams7h agoSources (2)Whole story →
JusticeTechnology
'What Meta's Money Is Buying': DOJ Halts Probe of Facebook Owner That Has Given Trump MillionsTop officials at the US Department of Justice have reportedly halted a years-long criminal investigation into Facebook parent company Meta for allegedly facilitating—and profiting from—the illegal sale of drugs on its platforms, including to children. Bloomberg Law reported Thursday that "senior leaders" at the Justice Department "ordered career…
Common Dreams5d agoWhole story →
JusticeTechnologydoj meta probe halted
Soros AG Behind $25 Billion Judgment Against Meta That Promises To Police SpeechA Democratic attorney general whose political rise was boosted by over $100,000 from George Soros secured a $25 billion judgment against Meta on Wednesday — the largest in the history of mankind — in a case that charged Meta with misleading users about its privacy practices. A judge found the company guilty of 43 million […] The post Soros AG Behind $25…
Washington Free Beacon6h agoWhole story →
SecurityJustice
Action Lawsuit Claims Meta AI Glasses Captured and Shared Intimate Images Without ConsentBy Samuel López | USA Herald SAN FRANCISCO - A growing federal privacy battle over Meta’s artificial-intelligence glasses is putting one of the most difficult questions surrounding wearable AI technology before the courts: What happens when an AI device sees something its owner—or the person standing in front of it—never intended to share? More than 70…
USA Herald1mo agoWhole story →
TechnologySecurity