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Breaking News: Meta must pay $25 billion, one of the largest penalties levied against the tech giant, for deceiving users about data privacy. nyti.ms/4yvv5yZ

Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Privacy

The penalty, one of the largest levied against the tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.

nytimes.com

Oct 21, 2026 · 6:01 PM UTC

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Instead of paying a fine why not put Mark Zuckerberg in prison for ten years
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When do we start sending CEOs to jail?
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They ruled businesses are people, but they never go to prison. So which is it?
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When is the US government paying all of us citizens back for illegally allowing DOGE access to our information? // These states suing tech companies for quick cash grabs is starting to look like Europe. Maybe try cases that will actually matter.
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good thing we didn't let them lobby the government to implement age verification for everyone which would require us to upload our IDs and biometrics to them. imagine what they would do with that data. phew
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Pay it to whom?
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Stupid. Those billions are nothing to them. How do you get the people in charge? Oh. You can’t.
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Now do it again for deceiving users about FREE SPEECH! They throttle and cram propaganda!
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Cambridge Analytica and Facebook created MAGA, so much damage done.
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They’ll get out of it. They always do.
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Nothing a little bribe to the Trump admin cant fix
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How much should they pay to suppress free speach ,like closing down the NoKings protest accounts and posts ... Must be worth 1000 x times more than that mini number ?
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This fine will be contested throgh the American system of influxes called lobbying which is the real us crisis that another way of saying what in the third world like India is called bribing . It’s a bribe with a suit and a tax!
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Mind You: Meta has bowed down to Trump. So we know this money and The Bank of America money is going straight into Jared Kushner’s pockets
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They deserve it! They also purposely destroy small business on their platforms
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Chicken feed for what it stole.
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Will it go to the personal accounts of innocent who has been hurt?
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Every state needs to start suing these thieving fucks
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*From just one state* Fingers and toes crossed that other states follow suit.
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Scammy platform owned by a scumbag
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So, licking Trump's ass didn’t help Zuckerberg get out of the fines after all?
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So according to SCOTUS, corporations are people in a sense too, so I'm fully expecting trump to give Meta a pardon and let SCOTUS deal with the litigation it will whip up.
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New Mexico said they will spend the money on their schools, guess they will be the envy of the nation.
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How and when will abused users be compensated?
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How much money do these guys need that they have to break the law?
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Still, the prefer to pay it than stop doing it. They should put someone in jail, the only way they will stop doing it.
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A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 BILLION over deceiving users about privacy. No fine can give an entire generation back its privacy or childhood. And #Zuckerberg? He can’t keep treating human lives as collateral damage in the pursuit of profit.
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it was $200 billion but a judge lowered it WHY
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Still way too low. They just factor these fines into the cost of doing business because they know there will never be any real consequences. The world would be a better place if Meta didn't exist.
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Who gets the $$?
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I hate these lawsuits. So Meta will pay New Mexico for what they did to INDIVIDUALS…. Who gets the money, oh the State, awesome. So companies screw over people and the people get nothing while the government takes it all, great system we have here, no corruption at all.
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Good. Meta has been dodgy.
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Pocket change for them.
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Who’s getting the $ though? Bet it’s not users
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Original fine was $219 billion btw.
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someone from meta C suite really needs to go to prison before they can change their ways, they are the most sued tech company in matters related to user data privacy
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