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New Mexico's privacy case against Meta over Cambridge Analytica

Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026

In September 2026 a New Mexico jury found that Meta misled the state's residents about privacy on Facebook, in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal of more than a decade earlier, and found more than 43 million violations.[1][2] In October a judge ordered Meta to pay the state $25 billion.[3]

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In October a judge ordered Meta to pay the state $25 billion.[3]

Coverage over time

Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)

Week of 2026-09-21 (UTC): 1%, 6 of 479 tracked outlets (1 left, 4 center, 1 right)Week of 2026-09-28 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-05 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-12 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-10-19 (UTC): 11%, 55 of 479 tracked outlets (15 left, 30 center, 10 right)Week of 2026-10-26 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-02 (UTC): under 1%, 2 of 471 tracked outlets (1 left, 1 center, 0 right)Week of 2026-11-09 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outlets, so far

LeftCenterRight

Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings.We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 9 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.

Weekly counts, outlets and reports (3 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)LeftCenterRightOf trackedShareReceipts
Nov 2, 20261102 of 471under 1%
Oct 19, 202615301055 of 47911%
Sep 21, 20261416 of 4791%

Latest coverage

The newest reporting in this story's record.

  1. Nov 3, 2026 · first reported · Headline from The Conversation US

    Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for harm from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal

Background

The case, brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, centered on how Facebook let outside parties access its users' personal information.[1][3] Judge Francis Mathew set the penalty after the jury found the company liable for deceiving users about its privacy and content moderation policies.[3]

Supporting stories (3)
  1. New Mexico jury reaches verdict in state’s privacy violation case against Meta
  2. New Mexico awarded $25 billion from Meta
  3. Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

The full record

Each date is when an update was first reported.

All 4 recorded updates

November 2026

  1. Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandalHeadline from The Conversation US · 2 outlets

October 2026

  1. New Mexico awarded $25 billion from MetaHeadline from KYMA Yuma · 1 outlet
  2. Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on FacebookHeadline from WFMZ Allentown · 63 outlets

September 2026

  1. New Mexico jury reaches verdict in state’s privacy violation case against MetaHeadline from KTSM 9 News · 6 outlets

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