Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations NYT - Top Stories By: Eli Tan and Cecilia Kang 21 October 2026 at 23:57 The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy. © Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York TimesMeta’s annual Meta Connect event at the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus.