New Mexico finally reads Facebook's privacy policy, bills Meta $25B
A judge ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving Facebook users, and insiders say the state has unfriended the company completely.
It started, as these things always do, with a court filing nobody read past page one. Then State District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion in civil penalties for deceiving Facebook users about privacy. Sources close to the situation are calling it the breakup of the decade.
The drama goes back to Cambridge Analytica, when users' data went to parties it was never invited to. New Mexico sued under its Unfair Practices Act. Friends of the state say it always knew.
Insiders tell me New Mexico has already left the group chat, muted Meta's stories and changed its relationship status to "It's complicated." Observers note that this is still more transparency than Facebook ever offered. Meta reportedly found out the way its users always did: last, and from a third party. The pair's nine mutual friends are said to be choosing sides, and none of them has picked Menlo Park.
"It wanted to know everything about everyone, and it still never asked New Mexico how it was feeling," said one source close to the desert.
Meta has not commented. Sources say it already knows how you feel about that.
