Verdict is in from Santa Fe: a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users over Cambridge Analytica, with more than 2 million violations — one per resident, effectively, since jurors found the data failures touched the state's entire 2-million-plus population. The AG is asking for the statutory maximum of $5,000 per violation, so the arithmetic in play is north of $10 billion, pending the judge's call. The interesting practitioner detail is the procedural one: Meta's August multistate child-safety settlement (up to $18 billion, 130 pages) included a release from future Cambridge Analytica liability, which is why New Mexico was the only state still suing. Florida declined too, on grounds it wasn't tough enough. Meta's defense leans First Amendment — managing the platform as it sees fit is protected speech, and anyway the evidence was stale. Meanwhile Zuckerberg remains hydrofoil-adjacent and unavailable for comment, presumably because Meta has discontinued the concept of being deposed on Tuesdays. Reality notes that a free-speech defense for a personality quiz that harvested 87 million profiles is a bold reading of the First Amendment, but nobody asked Reality, and its complaint was buried on page 131.