On April 25, 2018, Facebook released their first earnings report since the scandal was reported. Revenue fell since the last quarter, but this is usual as it followed the holiday season quote.

Jul 16, 2025 · The FTC fined Facebook $5 billion in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying the company had violated a 2012 agreement with the FTC to protect user data.

Nov 14, 2025 · This scandal involved the unauthorized harvesting of millions of Facebook users' personal information by Cambridge Analytica for political advertising. Its enormous impact brought …

Jul 16, 2025 · That issue came to light with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which millions of users’ Facebook data was harvested through a third-party app, and that data was allegedly used to …

Sep 15, 2025 · People who filed claims as part of Facebook's privacy settlement could get their money over the next 10 weeks.

Jul 17, 2025 · Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a multibillion dollar lawsuit with a group of shareholders over how top executives and directors at Meta handled repeated privacy violations by …

Sep 15, 2025 · A court filing, first reported by CBS News, revealed that the largest payments will be paid to people who were on Facebook for the entire 15-year period covered by the settlement.

Mar 16, 2023 · The idea of political persuasion and data mining suddenly felt very close to every Facebook user, and the aftermath of the scandal included rethinking the ethics of data privacy and …

Dec 20, 2025 · In this article we have covered the full timeline of Facebook data breaches up to the end of 2025. These breaches have resulted in the exposure of the personal information of millions of …

Facebook later sold user data to commercial partners in direct violation of the consent order and removed disclosures from privacy settings that were required under consent order, the lawsuit alleges.