A Meta, controller of social networks Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, agreed to pay compensation to settle the lawsuit that alleged that the company allowed millions of personal information about its users to be provided to Cambridge Analytica, a company that supports Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
It is not yet clear how much money users will receive, reported the Associated Press (AP) agency.
The more people who submit valid claims, the smaller each payment will be, as the money will have to be split between them.
To claim compensation, users can fill in a form and submit it online or print and mail it.
This case arose from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a company linked to Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon, paid a Facebook app creator to access personal information of about 87 million users of the platform.
This data was used to target US voters during the 2016 campaign, which culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th President.
The protests related to these revelations led to the executive director and co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, being questioned by US congressmen and resulted in requests for people to close their accounts on the social network.
Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people are hooked on rival apps like TikTok, although the social network still has more than 2 billion users worldwide, including around 250 million in the US.
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