New Mexico wants Meta to pay up to $40 billion in penalties after data privacy trial

The state of New Mexico asked a judge on Thursday to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion ​and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data on Facebook in ‌a case that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The jury may have said it found Meta’s statements misleading, but the evidence shows that Meta does not sell user data, and New Mexico did not prove that any consumer had actually been misled, the company said in court filings.

Attorneys ​for Meta and New Mexico clashed at the hearing over how much was appropriate to order, with Meta arguing that the penalties ⁠the state was seeking don't match the conduct the state focused its case on at trial.