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That's just for their behavior in court.
While Facebook's parent company, Meta, agreed in December to pay $725 million to settle the Cambridge Analytica privacy lawsuit, a judge on Thursday decided that wasn't quite enough to ensure the social media giant had learned its lesson for sharing user data without permission.
US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ordered Facebook and its lawyers from the high-profile firm Gibson Dunn to pay an additional $925,078.51 to the class action plaintiffs for "trying to gaslight" their users and the court about its conduct.
Facebook and its lawyers, according to the judge, conducted "a sustained, concerted, bad-faith effort to throw obstacle after obstacle in front of the plaintiffs — all in an attempt to push the plaintiffs into settling the case for less than they would have gotten otherwise."
"Unfortunately, this sort of conduct is not uncommon in our court system," the judge wrote. "But it was unusually egregious and persistent here."
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While Facebook's parent company, Meta, agreed in December to pay $725 million to settle the Cambridge Analytica privacy lawsuit, a judge on Thursday decided that wasn't quite enough to ensure the social media giant had learned its lesson for sharing user data without permission.
US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ordered Facebook and its lawyers from the high-profile firm Gibson Dunn to pay an additional $925,078.51 to the class action plaintiffs for "trying to gaslight" their users and the court about its conduct.
Facebook and its lawyers, according to the judge, conducted "a sustained, concerted, bad-faith effort to throw obstacle after obstacle in front of the plaintiffs — all in an attempt to push the plaintiffs into settling the case for less than they would have gotten otherwise."
"Unfortunately, this sort of conduct is not uncommon in our court system," the judge wrote. "But it was unusually egregious and persistent here."
A federal judge accused Facebook of 'gaslighting' users impacted by data breaches and fined the site and its lawyers nearly $1 million
Facebook was sanctioned as part of a class action suit against the site for sharing user data with businesses including Cambridge Analytica.
I'm supposed to be their #1 prisoner! 