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Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users

Axios·October 21, 2026·1 min read
Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties Wednesday after a jury found in September that the company misled users about data privacy. The penalty follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from over 50 million Facebook users was harvested for political ads in 2016. Meta expects to appeal the decision.

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