Do You Qualify to Join Facebook's Class Action Suit? Here's How to Know – Reader's Digest

Everyone who used Facebook over the past 15 years qualifies for the $725 million class action lawsuit against Facebook. A class action lawsuit is when a group of people who’ve been wronged in a similar way collectively bring a lawsuit against a corporation or institution instead of filing individual lawsuits. When a class action lawsuit is successful, the payout is distributed among the plaintiffs based on the extent of their individual damages. Damages can be physical, financial or environmental, and some notable class-action lawsuits have settled for billions of dollars. One notable class-action suit was against Dow Corning, which paid over $3.2 billion in 1998 to women claiming injuries and illnesses due to silicone breast implants. In 2008, Enron shareholders received $7.2 billion in the largest securities settlement of all time. In 2015, BP paid $20 million after a leaking oil well polluted 1,100 miles of shoreline and caused an explosion that killed 11 and injured 17 people. Wherever there’s a lawsuit—or the potential for a lawsuit—there will be people who want a piece of the action. Over the years there have been some ridiculous fast-food lawsuits, and in the days of social media and having a video recorder in
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