Mark Zuckerberg And Sheryl Sandberg Now Calm, Meta Resolve Lawsuit In Cambridge Analytica Scandal

JAKARTA - Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg had to queue to give depositions for hours in response to a lawsuit against Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. But now that will not happen because Meta Platform Inc., has reached a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs.

As previously reported by Reuters, the court filing revealed the parties had reached an agreement in principle and requested a 60-day delay to finalize their written agreement. Without this settlement, they will be tried before 20 September.

Meta, declined to comment through its spokesperson. While the plaintiff's attorney has not responded to questions from The Verge. But this deal is to keep things from going any further which could result in a loss for Meta, no matter how much it spends on VR.

Now, Zuckerberg only needs to answer a question from Joe Rogan and talk about the new VR headset, instead of swearing in front of opposing attorneys about the details of what happened inside his company around the time of the 2016 election.

The lawsuit alleges that Facebook illegally shared user data with third parties, and says the company does not adequately protect that data from being misused by bad actors.

Zuckerberg faced questions from Congress in 2018 that did little to clear up the scandal or explain exactly what happened to Cambridge Analytica, a company hired by the Trump presidential campaign that was able to collect data from millions of Facebook profiles.