新墨西哥州一个陪审团裁定，科技巨头Meta违反了该州消费者保护法近4400万次，因此Meta必须向新墨西哥州支付250亿美元。
Meta must pay $25 billion to New Mexico after a jury found the tech giant guilty of nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws.
这是Meta有史以来遭遇的最大一笔罚款。此前，Meta今年早些时候与几乎全美各州的总检察长达成了180亿美元的和解协议，但新墨西哥州总检察长劳尔·托雷斯拒绝加入该协议。
The largest fine to ever hit Meta came after New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez declined to join an $18 billion settlement Meta reached earlier this year with attorneys general in nearly all states.
美国地区法院法官弗朗西斯·J·马修周三在意见书中表示，对于Meta自2010年以来在“数据控制权、第三方数据滥用、虚假信息、仇恨言论和公平执法”等方面反复且故意欺骗用户的行为，在确定适当处罚时并不存在“明确界线规则”。
In his opinion Wednesday, US district court judge Francis J. Mathew said there was no “bright line rule” for determining the appropriate penalty for Meta's repeated and willful deception of users since 2010 about their “control of data, third-party data misuse, misinformation, hate speech, and equal enforcement.”