New Mexico's privacy case against Meta over Cambridge Analytica

Active · last development Oct 22: “New Mexico awarded $25 billion from Meta”

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New Mexico's lawsuit accusing Facebook of deceiving users about privacy protections, tied to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal of more than a decade ago: the jury's September 2026 verdict finding the company liable under state law, and the judge's October order that Meta pay the state $25 billion.

Earliest story we hold Sep 23, 2026 · 3 stories · 56 sources (counted once each) · 29 days

Photo from Watch Dog Report, with Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook (Oct 21), the story with the most sources this week.

Where it standsnewest first · each bar runs left to right by leaning

Oct 22New Mexico awarded $25 billion from Meta1 article · 1 source
0 left, 1 center, 0 right
Oct 21– 23Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook83 articles · 63 sources
15 left, 29 center, 10 right
Sep 23– 26New Mexico jury reaches verdict in state’s privacy violation case against Meta10 articles · 7 sources
1 left, 4 center, 1 right

Who covered it, over timeshare of the sources publishing each week, by side

Sep 21, 2026 - Oct 25, 2026

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Sep 21, 2026

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Week of Oct 19, 2026 - Oct 25, 2026: 15 left, 30 center, 10 right, 12% of the sources that published that week · 74 articles

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Sep 21, 2026 - Sep 27, 202614191%
Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 4, 202600000%
Oct 5, 2026 - Oct 11, 202600000%
Oct 12, 2026 - Oct 18, 202600000%
Oct 19, 2026 - Oct 25, 20261530107412%

27% left · 55% center · 18% right of 56 sources on the spectrum, across 3 stories.

Every storynewest first

  1. October 2026

    1. Oct 22New Mexico awarded $25 billion from Meta1 article · 1 source
      0 left, 1 center, 0 right
    2. Oct 21– 23Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook83 articles · 63 sources
      15 left, 29 center, 10 right
  2. September 2026

    1. Sep 23– 26New Mexico jury reaches verdict in state’s privacy violation case against Meta10 articles · 7 sources
      1 left, 4 center, 1 right