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Facebook faces sensitive claims as judge pushes Cambridge Analytica suit forward

By Mike Swift ( February 27, 2025, 23:43 GMT | Comment) -- Lawyers for the former Facebook faced a federal judge who didn't hide his impatience that seven years after the company's Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, a shareholder suit over whether Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives failed to tell investors about data practices that put the company at legal risk has failed to reach the discovery phase of litigation. In what couldn't have been welcome news to the company - now known as Meta Platforms - given the sensitivity of the allegations, US District Judge Edward Davila asked if the two sides could get to trial as soon as next year.Shareholder litigation filed against Facebook in 2018 over app developer access to user data a decade ago must get moving now, a federal judge said today in asking the two sides if they could get to trial as soon as next year....

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