# Meta hit with $25B fine after New Mexico rejects multistate settlement

https://mins.news/en/item/111540

- Ars Technica, 2026-10-22 17:04 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/meta-whines-new-mexico-is-impossible-to-please-after-historic-25-billion-fine/

> A jury found Meta committed nearly 44 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws and ordered it to pay the state $25 billion. The state’s attorney general had declined to join an $18 billion deal Meta reached with attorneys general from nearly every other state. A judge said there was no clear-cut rule for setting a penalty for Meta’s repeated, willful deception of users since 2010.

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