New Mexico asked Judge Francis Mathew to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion after a jury found the company misled consumers about Facebook data privacy. The lawsuit followed revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm that worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, harvested personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a third-party app without their consent. The jury’s Sept. 25 verdict found 26 of 29 statements made by Meta and its leadership misleading and identified more than 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws. State attorney Randi McGinn said the proposed penalty would be substantial while addressing due-process concerns, while Meta called the request astronomical and asked the judge to cap damages at $3.45 billion. Meta also argued that New Mexico had not shown consumers were actually misled and that the company does not sell user data. Judge Francis Mathew, who presided over the Santa Fe trial, is expected to rule later this month. Meta closed at $725.93 on Thursday and rose 0.12% to $726.77 in after-hours trading, while Benzinga Edge ranked the stock in the 80th percentile for momentum.