Judge Francis Mathew handed down the amount, which New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez described as “one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history.”
“These communications were part of a coherent strategy designed to mislead the public,” Mathew wrote.
The case stemmed from allegations that Facebook deceived users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles and sold it to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to generate targeted ads.
Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
—This is breaking news and will be updated.
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