New Mexico asked a state judge for up to $40 billion from Meta after a jury found more than 43 million violations of its Unfair Practices Act. That is seven to eight times Meta's 2019 FTC settlement, sought over public statements about privacy and hate speech.
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New Mexico jurors found Facebook broke the state's Unfair Practices Act nearly 44 million times, at up to $5,000 per violation. A judge sets the penalty in the coming weeks from findings that Facebook's public statements about data sharing misled its users.
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Santa Fe jurors counted 31 misleading Meta statements on privacy and moderation as about 43 million violations of New Mexico law. Judge Francis Matthew sets the rate on Oct. 1, and at the $5,000 cap the state wants, one statement carries up to $10.5 billion.
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Meta lost a second New Mexico consumer-protection jury trial this year, on findings the state's lawyer counts as 43.9 million violations worth up to $5,000 each. A judge sets the penalty next, and that same lawyer expects Meta's appeal to hold back any cash for four or five years.
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California's AG says the child-safety case is about civil penalties and restitution, not damages. The exposure sits between $200 billion and $1.4 trillion, plus an order to strip features.
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Default 2-hour caps, a midnight-to-6am block and age assurance are now written down, with a contingent payment attached to Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting the same defaults.
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The remedy New Mexico won at trial is the one Meta's $18 billion settlement does not contain
New Mexico won about $942 million and a ban on romantic AI chatbot contact with minors in court. The 51-state deal pays up to $18 billion and, its own attorney general says, leaves that term out.
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Meta's Design Risk Stops Being A Headline And Starts Being A Line Item
Opening arguments in the 29-state child-privacy case against Meta begin Tuesday in California, with a penalty range the two sides describe seven times apart.
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New Mexico moves to uncap consumer-protection penalties and pull chatbots into scope
Raul Torrez is drafting bills that would remove penalty caps and extend liability to AI chatbots, one day before 29 attorneys general opened against Meta in Oakland. States are setting the floor.
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