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🗞️ Story file #770

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico in data privacy case

Oct 21, 3 PM ET to Oct 21, 7 PM ET

23outlets carried it
🫏12 · 6 · 5🐘left · center · right
4 hourson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
39 sof TV captions
4radio newscasts

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 21, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 21, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 21, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 21, 7 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 21, 3 PM to Oct 21, 7 PM ET (peak 23), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 3 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CBS News, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

💬 quoted: “lies”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 deceiving users

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook” → “Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook - AP News”
Business Insider (3 wordings): “Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty over the Cambridge Analytica case” → “Meta ordered to pay a $25 billion penalty over New Mexico class action suit”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Privacy” → “Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy” → “Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case”

Every outlet's first headline (23), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Meta Hit With $25 Billion Judgment For Deceiving New Mexico Users About Privacy Oct 21, 3 PM ET
The Guardian Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case Oct 21, 3 PM ET
AP Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook Oct 21, 3 PM ET
Axios Meta hit with $25 billion penalty for misleading Facebook users Oct 21, 2 PM ET
Business Insider Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty over the Cambridge Analytica case Oct 21, 3 PM ET
CBS News Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico in data privacy ruling Oct 21, 3 PM ET
CNN Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico case over Cambridge Analytica scandal Oct 21, 6 PM ET
Mediaite JUST IN: Meta Ordered to Pay Whopping $25 Billion Privacy Breach Settlement Oct 21, 3 PM ET
New York Times Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Privacy Oct 21, 2 PM ET
PBS NewsHour Meta must pay New Mexico $25 billion, its biggest fine ever, for deceiving users about Facebook privacy Oct 21, 4 PM ET
The Independent Meta forced to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico over Facebook privacy scandal Oct 21, 3 PM ET
Yahoo News Meta ordered to pay $25 billion after jury finds company liable for deceiving users Oct 21, 5 PM ET
BBC Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy Oct 21, 3 PM ET
Fortune New Mexico took on Meta alone and won a $25 billion judgment over Facebook’s privacy violations Oct 21, 3 PM ET
Reuters Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy Oct 21, 3 PM ET
Straight Arrow News Meta to pay $25B to New Mexico for deceiving customers in latest legal loss Oct 21, 3 PM ET
The Hill Judge orders Meta to pay New Mexico $25B in Cambridge Analytica case Oct 21, 6 PM ET
WSJ Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion to New Mexico in Data-Privacy Case Oct 21, 3 PM ET
IJR Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Oct 21, 5 PM ET
New York Post Meta ordered to pay $25B to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica scandal over user data in 2016 election Oct 21, 2 PM ET
Newsmax Meta Paying New Mexico $25 Billion Over Facebook Privacy Oct 21, 3 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit JUST IN: Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Penalty for Misleading Facebook Users About Data Privacy Oct 21, 4 PM ET
The Western Journal BREAKING: Meta Forced to Pay $25 Billion Settlement for Privacy Breach Oct 21, 7 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News39 s

Meta fined $25bn in New Mexico privacy case BBC News, 39 s

📻 On the radio

ABC News Update, Oct 21, 6:05 PM ET: story 3 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 21, 5:09 PM ET: story 7 of 8
ABC News Update, Oct 21, 3:32 PM ET: story 3 of 4
NPR News Now, Oct 21, 3:10 PM ET: story 7 of 7

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: New Mexico Meta Cambridge Analytica

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.