Meta’s Facebook Agrees to Settle Cambridge Analytica Suit
- Depositions of Zuckerberg, Sandberg scheduled for September
- Terms of data sharing settlement not disclosed in court filing
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Meta Platforms Inc. settled a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica.
The preliminary settlement, disclosed in a court filing late Friday, follows the revelation last month that Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg would have to sit for as long as six hours of questioning by plaintiffs’ lawyers. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed.