10月1日：新墨西哥州周四请求法官命令Meta Platforms支付350亿至400亿美元的罚款，此前陪审团认定该公司在剑桥分析丑闻引发的案件中，误导消费者关于其Facebook数据隐私的情况。
Oct 1 : The state of New Mexico asked a judge on Thursday to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data on Facebook in a case that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
新墨西哥州律师在听证会上提出这一请求，该诉讼源于曝光：这家为唐纳德·特朗普2016年总统竞选活动提供服务的英国政治咨询公司，未经同意通过第三方应用程序收集了多达8700万Facebook用户的个人数据。
Attorneys for New Mexico made the request at a hearing in a lawsuit brought following revelations that the British political consulting firm, which worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app without their consent.
陪审团于9月25日作出裁决。在圣菲监督审判的法官弗朗西斯·马修将决定Meta必须支付多少经济罚款。
The jury returned its verdict on September 25. Judge Francis Mathew, who oversaw the trial in Santa Fe, will decide how much Meta must pay in financial penalties.
Meta和新墨西哥州的律师在听证会上就多少罚款属于适当发生冲突，Meta辩称州政府寻求的罚款与其在审判中重点指控的行为不符。
Attorneys for Meta and New Mexico clashed at the hearing over how much was appropriate to order, with Meta arguing that the penalties the state was seeking don't match the conduct the state focused its case on at trial.
马修说：“当各方去审判时，他们就是在掷骰子。他们难道不必接受自己决定去审判的后果吗？”
"Well, when the parties go to trial, they roll the dice," said Mathew. "They have to accept the consequences of their decision to go to trial, do they not?"
审判聚焦于虚假陈述该诉讼于2021年提起，指控Meta就谁有权访问其数据、公司如何处理平台上的仇恨言论和错误信息以及其他内部政策等问题，向该州Facebook用户撒谎。州政府称，公司知情第三方广泛访问用户个人数据，且当有利于公司利润时，容忍仇恨言论或其他有害内容。
TRIAL FOCUSED ON MISSTATEMENTS The lawsuit, filed in 2021, accused Meta of lying to Facebook users in the state about who had access to their data, how the company handles hate speech and misinformation posted on the platform and other internal policies. The company knew that third parties had broad access to users' personal data, and it tolerated hate speech or other harmful content when it benefited the company's bottom line, the state said.
陪审团审查了公司及其领导层在这些问题上作出的29项陈述，认定其中26项具有误导性。他们表示，根据每条误导性陈述的受众——即Facebook用户或新墨西哥州居民的数量——公司违反新墨西哥州消费者保护法的行为超过4300万次。
Jurors examined 29 statements made by the company and its leadership on those issues and found 26 of them misleading. They said the company had committed more than 43 million violations of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws, based on the number of Facebook users or New Mexico residents who were the audience for each misleading statement.
Meta 的律师在庭审中辩称，这些言论是被挑选出来的片段，且公司已多次承认其在处理虚假信息或隐私问题上并不完美。
Attorneys for Meta had argued at trial that the statements were cherry-picked snippets, and the company had repeatedly acknowledged its handling of misinformation or privacy issues was not perfect.
州法律允许法官决定每项违规对 Meta 处以多少罚款，最高可达 5000 美元。
State law allows the judge to decide how much to fine Meta per violation, up to $5,000.
在周四的听证会上，新墨西哥州的律师兰迪·麦金表示，将最高 5000 美元的罚款乘以违规次数，将根据美国宪法的正当程序保护条款，造成过高的罚款。但麦金表示，法官应下令支付一笔足以影响公司的巨款。
At the hearing on Thursday, Randi McGinn, a lawyer for New Mexico, said applying the full $5,000 penalty to the number of violations would create too large of a penalty under the US Constitution’s protections on due process. But the judge should order a significant payment that will impact the company, McGinn said.
麦金说：“法庭应用 Meta 唯一听得懂的语言——金钱和股价——与其对话。”她表示，350 亿至 400 亿美元（约占根据州法律根据判决可能判处的罚款总额的 20%）将会影响股价，同时符合 Meta 依据宪法享有的正当程序权利。
"This court should speak to Meta in the only language it understands, which is money, and the value of its stock price," McGinn said. She said $35 billion to $40 billion, which represents about 20 per cent of the possible penalties that could be awarded under state law from the verdict, would impact the stock price while complying with Meta's right to due process under the Constitution.
在周四的听证会上，Meta 的律师马特·尼科尔森称该州的请求是“将明显违反大量宪法条款的天文数字罚款”。在法庭文件中，Meta 敦促马修法官将罚款上限限制在 34.5 亿美元。公司在法庭文件中表示，陪审团可能认定 Meta 的声明具有误导性，但证据表明 Meta 并不出售用户数据，且新墨西哥州未能证明有任何消费者实际上受到了误导。法官表示预计将于本月晚些时候作出裁决。
At the hearing on Thursday, Matt Nicholson, a lawyer for Meta, called the state's request an "astronomical penalty that would obviously violate a host of constitutional provisions." In court filings, Meta urged Mathew to cap the penalties at $3.45 billion. The jury may have said it found Meta’s statements misleading, but the evidence shows that Meta does not sell user data and New Mexico did not prove that any consumer had actually been misled, the company said in court filings. The judge said he expected to issue a ruling later this month.
该案为新墨西哥州等诉 Meta Platforms, Inc. 案，案号 D-101-CV-2021-00132，审理法院为新墨西哥州第一司法区法院。
The case is State of New Mexico, et. al., v. Meta Platforms, Inc., case number D-101-CV-2021-00132 in the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico.
新墨西哥州代理律师：McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers 律师事务所的兰迪·麦金Meta 代理律师：Williams & Connolly 律师事务所的马特·尼科尔森
For New Mexico: Randi McGinn of McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers For Meta: Matt Nicholson of Williams & Connolly