Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users
The gist
A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections.
The judge now decides the penalty, with the state seeking $5,000 per violation.
How it unfolded
- Sep 25, 2026A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform, after a two-week trial in Santa Fe.
- Sep 25, 2026Jurors sided with prosecutors, finding Facebook made deceptive statements about protecting users' data that affected New Mexico's entire population of more than two million people, and found over 43 million violations of state consumer protection law.
- Sep 25, 2026The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.