Facebook Must Share Trump Files in Cambridge Analytica Suit

Meta Platforms Inc.‘s Facebook must share any documents related to work for Donald Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign as part of a consumer privacy lawsuit over a data-harvesting scandal involving political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook had tried to challenge consumers’ bid for the documents but failed to dodge their request, according to a Wednesday order denying reconsideration by a court-appointed referee in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Lawyers for the consumers in the case, filed in 2018, argue that the documents could shed light on what information was harvested from Facebook users and how ...