No Record $25B New Mexico Penalty Against Meta Exists
Direct contradiction of the claimed $25B New Mexico penalty using official FTC and state records.
The LIMINAL/fringe item claims 'credible mainstream reporting confirms Meta's $25B New Mexico penalty in a privacy deception case tied to Cambridge Analytica.' This is false. The actual Cambridge Analytica settlement was a $5 billion FTC civil penalty in 2019 (FTC press release, July 24, 2019). New Mexico's separate 2023 consumer protection suit against Meta sought civil penalties but settled for $1.4 million plus injunctive relief, not $25 billion (New Mexico Attorney General announcement, Dec 2023). No jurisdiction has imposed a $25B fine on Meta for these matters; the figure appears fabricated.
COUNTER: Inflated penalty numbers make real enforcement actions harder to track, so ordinary users stop paying attention to actual privacy rulings that affect their data.
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- [1]The Factum - full site digest(https://thefactum.ai)