‘Facebook Kept Telling Us It Was OK’: New Mexico AG Opens New Trial Against Meta

Click to enter your existing username and password or create a new account. Click to purchase an individual user subscription with your credit card. News Consumer Protection The trial, which is expected to last four weeks in Santa Fe’s First Judicial District Court, addresses alleged misstatements Facebook made amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal about user data. 6 minute read September 10, 2026 at 10:27 AM Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, testifies before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees, regarding the unauthorized gathering of millions of Facebook users’s data by consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. What You Need to Know The state’s attorney, Randi McGinn, told jurors Meta misstated that it took a “zero tolerance” approach to hate speech and misinformation Williams & Connolly’s Dane Butswinkas representing Meta, insisted much of the government’s case were snippets that were taken out of context Meta quietly paid $459.3 million in similar Cambridge Analytica claims by 46 other states as part of a proposed $17 billion agreement announced last month. The state of New Mexico kicked off another trial against Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday, this time focused
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