Facebook Says Settling FTC Probe Could Cost Up to $5 Billion
- Company in advanced talks with states over Cambridge Analytica
- FTC investigating potential violations on 2011 settlement
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Facebook Inc. estimated that it will cost as much as $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into its privacy practices, as the social-media company moves to put the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal behind it.
Facebook said Wednesday that it took a $3 billion charge related to the investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into whether the company violated a 2011 privacy settlement with the agency.