In 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg founded a startup called The Facebook. It went on to some modest success, but things got hairy when ol’ Zuck started mucking around with people’s data. So hairy, fact, that the company may owe you free cash.
This lawsuit stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, where it was discovered that Facebook let a political consulting firm working for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz siphon off user data from 87 million accounts. Facebook, which intentionally designed it’s platform for this kind of data harvesting, pretended. Later, it turned out Zuckerberg knew about Cambridge Analytica for at least a year before the news broke.
Meta (the company formerly known as The Facebook) denies that it broke the law.
If you had a Facebook account between 2007 and 2022 (and be honest, you did) you may be entitled to compensation. You have until July 26, 2023 to file a claim.
