News Summary

• New Mexico’s attorney general sued Meta in 2021 following revelations that Cambridge Analytica had harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app.
• The state accused Meta of lying to Facebook users in New Mexico about who had access to their data and its handling of hate speech and misinformation posted on the platform.
• The judge found that a penalty of more than $219bn was warranted based on state law, but he reduced the figure to $25bn.