A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for 43.9 million violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act. The state wants $35 to $40 billion.
About a quarter of those violations are for not removing "hate speech" and "misinformation" fast enough.
The state did not have to show anyone saw the statements or was harmed. It only had to show harm was likely. Then it multiplied the violations by the number of people in New Mexico.
Meta says it has a First Amendment right to manage its platforms as it sees fit. Fining a company for slow takedowns of lawful speech is pressure to take down more of it.
Remove faster, remove more, or pay by the head...
https://reclaimthenet.org/new-mexico-meta-fined-speech-violations
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