Meta failed to protect kids from sexual predators and misled users about its platforms’ safety, violating New Mexico law, a jury found Tuesday in a landmark case.

The tech giant was ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties.

The verdict came after six weeks of testimony from witnesses that included ex-Meta executives, teachers and online safety experts.

New Mexico prosecutors argued that Meta hid the extent of safety issues that kids faced on Facebook and Instagram and failed to enforce its claimed minimum age limit of 13 – even as its algorithms allegedly made it easier for creeps to target kids for online harassment and even sex trafficking.

“The safety issues that you’ve heard about in this case, weren’t mistakes,” state attorney Linda Singer told the jury on Monday.