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Meta says US judge should bar new shareholder claims over Cambridge Analytica statements

By Mike Swift ( January 15, 2026, 23:53 GMT | Insight) -- Lawyers for Meta Platforms told a federal judge in California that as a long-delayed shareholder suit over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal moves toward trial, shareholders shouldn't be allowed to expand their claims to include allegations that the company made numerous misleading statements or omissions after 2015 about the leaking of Facebook user data to third parties.Lawyers for Meta Platforms urged a federal judge in California on Thursday to bar shareholders from expanding their claims over the impact to stock prices of the former Facebook’s most costly privacy stumble — the Cambridge Analytica scandal that began a decade ago....

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