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Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

Original: Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

Meta has been ordered to pay a $25 billion penalty in New Mexico's lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a CNBC report dated October 21, 2026. The ruling ties back to the harvesting of Facebook users' data, one of the most consequential privacy cases of the past decade, and ranks among the largest penalties ever imposed on a technology company.

Why now: The sheer size of the $25 billion penalty against one of the world's biggest tech companies makes it major breaking news.

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