新墨西哥州一名法官下令 Meta 支付 250 亿美元，此前陪审团认定该公司在数据隐私和与剑桥分析公司（Cambridge Analytica）相关的 Facebook 数据访问问题上误导用户。
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay US$25 billion after a jury said it misled users about data privacy and Facebook data access linked to Cambridge Analytica.
该州指控 Meta 就谁能访问用户数据以及如何处理仇恨言论和虚假信息撒谎。该州称该裁决是消费者保护的一大胜利。
The state said Meta lied about who could access user data and how it handled hate speech and misinformation. It called the ruling a major win for consumer protection.
Meta 表示将提起上诉，并称该案是“言论税”。专家预计将面临漫长的法律斗争，罚款将用于新墨西哥州学校。
Meta said it will appeal and called the case a “tax on speech”. Experts expect a long legal fight, and the money will go to New Mexico schools.
AI 生成 新墨西哥州 — 新墨西哥州一名法官于 10 月 21 日下令 Meta Platforms 支付 250 亿美元（约 320 亿新元），此前陪审团认定该公司误导消费者，此案源于指控称一家参与唐纳德·特朗普 2016 年总统竞选的政治咨询公司在未经用户同意的情况下获取了数百万 Facebook 用户的数据。
AI generated NEW MEXICO - A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay US$25 billion (S$32 billion) on Oct 21 after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.
新墨西哥州检察长劳尔·托雷斯（Raúl Torrez）表示，这是美国历史上针对单一公司的最大单州判决之一，如果不是最大的话。
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said it was one of the largest, if not the largest, single state verdict against a company in American history.
“Facebook 的不法行为 —— 持续多年并系统性地向公众广播 —— 触及了 Facebook 核心商业实践的核心，”法官弗朗西斯·马修（Francis Mathew）在判决后的命令中写道。
“Facebook’s wrongdoing – over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public – goes to the heart of Facebook’s core business practices,” Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order following the verdict.
马修认定，根据州法律，超过 2190 亿美元的罚款是合理的，但他将该数字降至 250 亿美元。
Mathew found that a penalty of more than US$219 billion was warranted, based on state law, but he reduced the figure to US$25 billion.
Meta 首席法律官 C.J. 马洪尼（C.J. Mahoney）在一份声明中表示，公司有信心在上诉中胜诉。
In a statement, C.J. Mahoney, Meta’s chief legal officer, said the company is confident it will win on appeal.
“这一裁决，以及检察长对这一执法的做法，使得在新墨西哥州开展业务几乎变得不可能，”马洪尼说。“从根本上说，这起诉讼试图征收‘言论税’，以强制执行关于人们可以在网上说什么的新规则。”该公司此前曾表示，数十亿美元的罚款可能侵犯其宪法赋予的正当程序权利和免受过度罚款的保护。
“This ruling, and the Attorney General’s approach to this enforcement, makes it all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico,” Mahoney said. “At its core, this lawsuit seeks to impose a tax on speech to enforce new rules for what people can say online.”The company had previously said a penalty in the billions of dollars risked violating its constitutional rights to due process and protection from excessive fines.
这是自剑桥分析公司丑闻曝光以来，对这家科技巨头处以的最大罚款。2019年，美国联邦贸易委员会因同一丑闻对该公司处以50亿美元罚款。
The penalty is the largest levied against the tech giant in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In 2019, the company was hit with a US$5 billion penalty by the US Federal Trade Commission stemming from the same scandal.
作为Meta于8月达成的171亿美元多州和解协议的一部分，其他六个州以4.592亿美元解决了与剑桥分析公司相关的诉讼，该协议旨在解决各州关于该公司平台损害青少年心理健康的指控。
Six other states settled their lawsuits related to Cambridge Analytica for US$459.2 million as part of a US$17.1 billion multistate settlement Meta reached in August to resolve states’ claims that the company’s platforms had harmed teen mental health.
诉讼提起于五年前 新墨西哥州检察长于2021年起诉Meta，此前曝光剑桥分析公司通过一款第三方应用，从多达8700万Facebook用户处收集了个人数据。
Lawsuit filed five years ago New Mexico’s attorney general had sued Meta in 2021 following revelations that Cambridge Analytica had harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app.
该州指控Meta就新墨西哥州Facebook用户的数据访问权限、公司如何处理平台上的仇恨言论和虚假信息以及其他内部政策等问题向用户撒谎。该州称，公司知晓第三方广泛获取用户个人数据，且在有利于公司利润时容忍仇恨言论或其他有害内容。
The state accused Meta of lying to Facebook users in New Mexico 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.
现已解散的剑桥分析公司曾为特朗普2016年成功的总统竞选工作，并获取了数百万Facebook账户的个人信息，用于选民画像和定向投放。该公司未经用户同意，从一名获Facebook许可在其社交媒体网络部署应用的研究人员处获得了这些信息。
Cambridge Analytica, now defunct, worked for Trump’s successful presidential campaign in 2016, and gained access to the personal information from millions of Facebook accounts for the purposes of voter profiling and targeting. It obtained that information without users’ consent from a researcher who had been allowed by Facebook to deploy an app on its social media network.
“让大型科技公司承担责任，这一天等了很久，”托雷兹周三裁决后在阿尔伯克基的新闻发布会上表示。“我认为今天的判决与过去彻底决裂，并向该领域乃至更广泛的从业者发出了非常明确的警告：我们打算保护我们的民众，保护我们的消费者。” D.A. Davidson & Co技术研究主管、分析师吉尔·卢里亚称，该裁决代价高昂，但不太可能影响公司的价值。
“It has been a long time coming holding Big Tech accountable,” Torrez told a press conference in Albuquerque after Wednesday’s ruling. “I think today’s judgment is a clear break with that past and a very clear warning to those in this space and beyond that we intend to protect our people and protect our consumers.”Analyst Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson & Co, called the ruling costly but unlikely to impact the company’s value.
“Meta 的市值接近 2 万亿美元，很可能会继续上诉这些案件并拖延时间，”Luria 说。
“Meta is worth nearly two trillion dollars, and will likely continue to appeal these cases and drag them out,” Luria said.
专家预计上诉战将持续很久 法律专家和金融分析师表示，该罚款很可能面临漫长的上诉抗争。
Experts expect long appeal fight Legal experts and financial analysts said the penalty was likely to face a lengthy battle on appeal.
陪审团于 9 月 25 日认定，该公司及其领导层就这些问题作出的 29 项陈述中有 26 项具有误导性。他们表示，根据每条误导性陈述的受众中 Facebook 用户或新墨西哥州居民的数量，该公司违反新墨西哥州消费者保护法的行为超过 4300 万次。
Jurors on September 25 found that 26 of 29 statements made by the company and its leadership on those issues were 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.
州法律规定每次违规最高可处以 5000 美元罚款，并指示所有罚款收入归新墨西哥州的学校系统所有，Torrez 在裁决后告诉记者。在 10 月 1 日的听证会上，新墨西哥州律师 Randi McGinn 曾请求 Mathew 法官判处该州 350 亿至 400 亿美元的罚款，称这将得到美国宪法正当程序保护和陪审团裁决的支持。
State law allows a penalty of up to US$5,000 per violation, and directs that all of the money go to New Mexico’s school system, Torrez told reporters after the verdict. At a hearing on Oct 1, Randi McGinn, a lawyer for New Mexico, had asked Mathew to award the state between US$35 billion and US$40 billion, saying that would be supported by the US Constitution’s protections on due process and the jury’s verdict.
“这家法院应该用 Meta 唯一听得懂的语言——金钱和股价——对其发声，”McGinn 说。
“This court should speak to Meta in the only language it understands, which is money, and the value of its stock price,” McGinn said.
在法庭文件中，Meta 敦促 Mathew 法官将罚款上限设为 34.5 亿美元，称更高的罚款有吓跑企业离开该州的风险。该公司在法庭文件中表示，证据显示 Meta 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。
In court filings, Meta urged Mathew to cap the penalties at US$3.45 billion, saying a higher penalty ran the risk of scaring businesses out of the state. The evidence showed 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.
宾夕法尼亚州立大学 Dickinson Law 副院长 Daryl Lim 表示，虽然美国宪法一般禁止过高的罚款，但由于新墨西哥州法律的写法，罚款数额巨大并不自动意味着它会被推翻。
Daryl Lim, an associate dean at Penn State Dickinson Law, said that while the US Constitution generally protects against excessive fines, because of the way New Mexico law is written, the large size of the penalty does not automatically mean it could be overturned.
两个陪审团均支持州政府 该裁决是六个月内圣菲陪审团在新墨西哥州起诉 Meta Platforms 的诉讼中作出的第二个有利于该州的裁决。
Two juries sided with state The verdict was the second in six months by a Santa Fe jury in a lawsuit brought by the state of New Mexico against Meta Platforms.
在3月结束的第一阶段审判中，圣菲陪审团认定Meta在其Facebook、Instagram和WhatsApp平台上误导用户关于年轻用户安全的情况，并责令该公司支付3.75亿美元的民事罚款。在该案第二阶段审判后，一名法官指令该公司向新墨西哥州青少年心理健康基金支付5.67亿美元，并责令Meta采取措施保护新墨西哥州的青少年Facebook和Instagram用户。
In the first trial, which ended in March, a Santa Fe jury found Meta misled users about young users’ safety on its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms and ordered the company to pay US$375 million in civil penalties. After a second phase of that trial, a judge directed the company to pay US$567 million into a New Mexico fund for teen mental health and ordered Meta to implement measures to protect teen Facebook and Instagram users in New Mexico.