Mark Zuckerberg And Meta Leaders Again Asked For Their Testimony Over The Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Mark Zuckerberg will be asked to testify in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. (photo:

JAKARTA - Several top executives of Meta Platform Inc., including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, and the man who will succeed Sandberg as COO, when he leaves the company later this year, will provide depositions in a lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

According to court documents filed earlier this week, Zuckerberg must answer questions for up to six hours, while Sandberg could face up to five hours of deposition.

The lawsuit, which could end up as a class action case if a judge approves it, alleges that Facebook illegally shared user data with third parties and did not adequately protect that data from misuse by bad actors.

It stems from a case where Cambridge Analytica, a company that worked for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was able to scrape data from millions of Facebook profiles without obtaining the user's permission. It was later discovered that the tactics they used were not entirely new.

According to The Verge report, this isn't the first time Zuckerberg has been in the hot seat over the scandal. In 2018, he had to testify before Congress, though it's debatable how effective that question was. Around that time, Sandberg also answered press questions, talking about Facebook's failures when it came to Cambridge Analytica and justifying its business model.

While it seems unlikely that this deposition will contain shocking revelations that have remained hidden in the years since the scandal began, the fact that Meta's top leadership is being questioned is a major milestone in this case that has been going on since 2018. The deposition will take place sometime before September 20.