跟进：法官判 Meta 向新墨西哥州赔付250亿美元 陪审团认定其4300多万次误导消费者
新墨西哥州一名法官10月21日裁定，Meta Platforms 向新墨西哥州赔付250亿美元。此前，Santa Fe 的陪审团已认定这家 Facebook 母公司在数据隐私等问题上误导消费者。GSM此前报道，新墨西哥州总检察长办公室在10月1日的听证会上请求法官判赔350亿至400亿美元，本次裁定金额低于检方请求，但仍属美国州级诉讼中金额最大的判决之列。
据路透社报道，法官 Francis Mathew 在裁定书中写道，Facebook 多年来系统性地向公众实施的不当行为触及该公司核心商业模式。陪审团9月25日认定，Meta及其高管所作29项陈述中有26项具误导性，按每项陈述的受众人数计算，共构成逾4,300万次违反新墨西哥州消费者保护法的行为。州法规定每次违规最高可罚5,000美元，Mathew法官据此计算本可判赔逾2,190亿美元，最终将金额降至250亿美元。
本案源于剑桥分析（Cambridge Analytica）数据丑闻：这家曾为特朗普2016年总统竞选工作的政治咨询公司，通过一款第三方应用获取了多达8,700万 Facebook 用户的数据。新墨西哥州总检察长 Raúl Torrez 于2021年起诉 Meta，指控其就谁能访问用户数据、如何处理仇恨言论与虚假信息等向本州 Facebook 用户撒谎，且明知第三方广泛获取用户数据、在有利于公司利润时容忍有害内容。审理期间，陪审团观看了首席执行官 Mark Zuckerberg 与前首席运营官 Sheryl Sandberg 的视频证词。其他州曾就同一丑闻与 Meta 达成集体和解，新墨西哥州选择单独诉讼到底。
Torrez在裁定后表示，这应是美国历史上针对单个公司的最大州级判决之一，应向硅谷发出明确信号，新墨西哥州将继续追究科技公司的责任。按该州宪法，此类罚款将用于教育支出；Torrez同时承认，若 Meta 按预期上诉，款项将被冻结一段时间。Meta首席法务官C.J. Mahoney在裁定后发表声明称，公司有信心在上诉中胜诉，并称这一裁决「使在新墨西哥州做生意几乎成为不可能」；Meta此前已表示计划就9月的陪审团裁决上诉。裁定公布时正值 Meta 定于当天下午发布季度财报，其股价当日上涨约2%。
Follow-Up: Judge Orders Meta to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion After Jury Finds More Than 43 Million Consumer Deceptions
A New Mexico judge on October 21 ordered Meta Platforms to pay the state $25 billion, after a jury in Santa Fe found the Facebook parent company had misled consumers on data privacy and other issues. GSM previously reported that the New Mexico Attorney General's office had asked the judge at an October 1 hearing to award $35 billion to $40 billion; the amount ordered is below the state's request but ranks among the largest state verdicts in U.S. history.
According to Reuters, Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order that Facebook's wrongdoing, carried out over years and systematically broadcast to the public, goes to the heart of the company's core business practices. On September 25, jurors found that 26 of 29 statements by the company and its leadership were misleading and that, counting the audience for each statement, Meta had committed more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection law. State law allows up to $5,000 per violation; Mathew calculated that a penalty of more than $219 billion was warranted and reduced the figure to $25 billion.
The case stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the political consulting firm that worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign harvested data on as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app. Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Meta in 2021, accusing it of lying to New Mexico Facebook users about who had access to their data and how it handled hate speech and misinformation, knowing that third parties had broad access to user data and tolerating harmful content when it benefited the bottom line. Jurors saw video deposition testimony from Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Other states settled their claims over the scandal collectively; New Mexico chose to take the company to court on its own.
Torrez said after the ruling that it was one of the largest, if not the single largest, state verdicts against a company in American history, and that it should send an unambiguous signal to Silicon Valley that New Mexico will continue to hold tech companies accountable. Under the state constitution, such fines go to education spending; Torrez acknowledged the money would be tied up if Meta appeals, as expected. Meta Chief Legal Officer C.J. Mahoney said in a statement after the ruling that the company is confident it will prevail on appeal, calling the order a decision that "makes it nearly impossible to do business in New Mexico"; Meta had previously said it planned to appeal the September jury verdict. The order came hours before Meta was scheduled to report quarterly earnings that afternoon, with its shares trading about 2% higher following the announcement.
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图片来源：图：位于 Santa Fe 的新墨西哥州议会大厦（Roundhouse），本案在 Santa Fe 审理（资料图）。Ken Lund 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。Photo: The New Mexico State Capitol (the Roundhouse) in Santa Fe, where the case was tried (file photo). By Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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