New Mexico just won $25 billion from Meta, and most coverage will call it a privacy case.
(Facebook told users they were in control while handing their data to partners, then redefined “misuse” so it never had to tell 2,000 apps’ worth of victims.)
The rest of the verdict is something else.
The jury also punished Meta for saying it didn’t profit from “misinformation” and “hate speech,” which turns the case into a fine for not deleting posts fast enough.
The math is worse. The state multiplied each statement by every Facebook user or resident in New Mexico, and nobody had to prove a single person saw it, relied on it, or was harmed. When every unremoved post can become a per-head penalty, platforms will learn one lesson, and it is to delete more.
https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-new-mexico-privacy-hate-speech-fine
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