Remember Cambridge Analytica? What to know about the $8B US lawsuit against Meta’s board

World An $8 billion US trial by Meta Platforms shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders kicks off on Wednesday over claims that they illegally harvested the data of Facebook users in violation of a 2012 agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Zuckerberg sale of Facebook shares expected to be part of testimony in trial that begins Wednesday Chris Iorfida · CBC News · Posted: Jul 16, 2025 12:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, is shown at an event in the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver last year. Zuckerberg apologized for the Cambridge Analytica data breach, but his company has argued the breach did not reflect a violation of a 2012 agreement with a U.S. regulatory agreement. (David Zalubowski/The Associated Press) More than seven years after a privacy scandal involving Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica consulting firm emerged, an $8-billion US class action investors’ lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta board members will begin. The plaintiffs, led by Amalgamated Bank Inc., will argue in court in Wilmington, Del., that the harvesting of data of Facebook users in the Cambridge case was in violation of a 2012 agreement
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