Dramatic move shows Mark Zuckerberg ‘desperate to avoid being questioned over cover-up’, says Observer journalist
The latest developments follow a separatemore than necessary to the US Federal Trade Commission in a settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal in order to protect Zuckerberg.
The lawsuit alleged that the size of the $5bn settlement was motivated by a desire to prevent Facebook’s founder from being named in the FTC complaint. Cadwalladr added: “Facebook has proved that they are prepared to pay almost any sum of money to avoid their executives answering these questions. This settlement comes on top of the $5bn they already paid the FTC.In the new court filing, disclosed late on Friday, financial terms or details of the preliminary settlement are not given.asked Facebook and its lawyers to share more details of the in-principle settlement but it declined to respond.
However, the filing does ask the judge in the San Francisco federal court to put the class action lawsuit on hold for 60 days until the lawyers for both plaintiffs and Facebook finalise a written settlement. The four-year-old lawsuit, brought by a group of Facebook users, alleged that Facebook violated consumer privacy laws by sharing personal data of users with other firms such as
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