Cambridge Analytica
Settled. Meta paid or agreed to changes without admitting wrongdoing. How evidence is labeled
The class settlement became final in May 2025. In September 2026, a New Mexico jury found Meta’s promises after the scandal willfully misleading.
A researcher’s quiz app harvested data from up to 87 million users, most of them friends of the people who took the quiz, and passed it to a political consulting firm. Facebook learned of it in 2015, asked for the data to be deleted, and considered the matter closed until news reports in 2018.
Meta’s responseMeta settled the class action without admitting wrongdoing.
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