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)
11%0%
Sep 21this week
Sep 21Sep 28Oct 5Oct 12Oct 19Oct 26Nov 2Nov 9
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
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)
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Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Nov 2, 2026
1
1
0
2 of 471
under 1%
Oct 19, 2026
15
30
10
55 of 479
11%
Sep 21, 2026
1
4
1
6 of 479
1%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Nov 3, 2026 · first reported · Headline from The Conversation US
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]
