New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- A New Mexico court ordered Meta Platforms on Wednesday to pay the state $25 billion after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data. This came as one of the largest financial penalties imposed on a company in US history.

According to Reuters, the case stems from allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.

New Mexico had sued Meta, accusing it of lying to Facebook users in New Mexico about who had access to their data.

"Facebook's wrongdoing - over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public - goes to the hear...