A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Meta plans to appeal.

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about their privacy and its hate speech rules, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. It is among the largest verdicts in US legal history.

In September, a jury in Santa Fe found Meta liable for more than 43 million violations of the state’s consumer protection law. The case grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political consulting firm got data on up to 87 million Facebook users. The state also argued that some high-profile accounts got lighter scrutiny than ordinary users under Meta’s hate speech rules.

Judge Francis Mathew applied the maximum penalty of $5,000 per violation, which would have added up to $219B.…