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

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 50 100 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct 22 Oct 00:08 UTC · Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico privacy case 22 Oct 06:08 UTC · Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion in privacy case 22 Oct 12:10 UTC · New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Facebook privacy claims 22 Oct 18:09 UTC · New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Facebook privacy claims 24 Oct 06:09 UTC · Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico privacy case

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 4 HEADLINES

  1. 22 Oct, 00:08 UTC

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

  2. 22 Oct, 06:08 UTC

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

  3. 22 Oct, 12:10 UTC

    New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over Facebook privacy claims

  4. 24 Oct, 06:09 UTC

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

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Cambridge Analytica · 17 outlets
  • Big Tech · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.