At Meta's New Mexico trial, executive recounts post-Cambridge Analytica probe
By Mike Swift and Xu Yuan ( September 22, 2026, 01:38 GMT | Insight) -- Veteran Meta Platforms executive Ime Archibong took the witness stand Monday as New Mexico's privacy trial over the Cambridge Analytica breach against the former Facebook approached its conclusion. During a tough cross-examination, Archibong struggled to reconcile his description of how Facebook could have banned 120 app developers and 80,000 of their apps as the result of its three-year App Developer Investigation with his assertion that Cambridge Analytica was a nearly unique case and that the ADI found only “a couple of bad apples” on Facebook's platform.Meta Platforms ended its defense in its trial against New Mexico by sending a veteran executive to the witness stand Monday who, nearly a decade after the eruption of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, provided the first detailed in-court narrative of how the company then known as Facebook probed the leak....
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