New Mexico Jury Finds Meta Violated Unfair Practices Act and Orders $375 Million in Penalties for Harms to Children
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A New Mexico jury found that Meta violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act (consumer‑protection law), committing thousands of violations that knowingly harmed children’s mental health and safety and ordered $375 million in civil penalties. Jurors concluded Meta misled the public and engaged in unconscionable trade practices—concealing what it knew about child sexual exploitation documented in a state undercover probe that posed as minors—while Meta says it will appeal; prosecutors and advocates call the verdict a landmark test case amid dozens of related state suits and a parallel federal trial.
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