Meta Agrees to Pay $725 Million Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal

  • Meta’s Facebook was accused of sharing data with research firm
  • Settlement is biggest in a privacy case, plaintiffs say
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Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica.

It’s “the largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a private class action,” the plaintiffs said in a court filing late Thursday.