Meta’s history of fines and settlements

MAJOR PENALTIES ($ billions, 2019–2026)

Data privacy
and biometric
settlements
(includes FTC’s
2019 $5bn
settlement with
Facebook –
largest privacy-
related fine in
U.S. history)

European Union
General Data
Protection
Regulation
(GDPR)
enforcement

Antitrust and
fair competition

Aug 6: New Mexico
court judgement in
regard to child safety
and platform harms

7.22
2.84
1.22
0.94

Total:
$12.22bn

PENALTY
STATUS

Currently
under legal
appeals

Paid/settled

$5.10bn
$7.12bn

Meta CEO Mark
Zuckerberg, seen
here wearing Meta’s
AI glasses that video
record what he’s looking at

New Mexico
judge Bryan
Biedscheid
slams Meta
as a “public
nuisance” akin
to air pollution

Sources: Forbes, BBC. Note: Data gathered with aid
of AI.
Pictures: Getty, New Mexico Judicial Branch
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