Brief Published (Dubai time, UTC+4) · event date: 2026-10-21
Meta was ordered on Wednesday to pay a $25 billion fine to New Mexico for deceiving Facebook users, according to France 24.
This sanction follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed in 2018, which exposed the exploitation of personal data from tens of millions of Facebook users for political targeting purposes.
The Meta group condemns this procedure, describing it as a “tax on expression.”