The settlement is connected to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. Millions of users can file a claim, but time has almost run out. Dan was a writer on CNET's How-To and Thought ...

Facebook earned more than $110 billion last year by selling advertisements targeted at its users, powered by the data Facebook collected from them. Now, Facebook users have the chance to collect ...

Facebook users can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy lawsuit settlement if they had accounts from May 2007 to December 2022. Facebook's parent company, Meta, is doling out the ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook users who had an active account at any point between May 2007 and December 2022 can now apply to receive a piece of parent company Meta's $725 million settlement related ...

Attention Illinois Facebook users: Remember that check for $397 you received in the mail last year? You're due to get some more cash as part of that $650 million ...

Today is the last day for anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years to get a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations. The settlement stems ...

According to users' posts, a lawyer advised "60 Minutes" to post a message asking users to publicly declare Meta not to use ...

A massive $725 million class-action settlement has been reached with Facebook, affecting anybody who used the massive social network in the United States over a period of nearly 15 years. The lawsuit, ...

Facebook says it is not dead. Facebook also wants you to know that it is not just for "old people," as young people have been saying for years. Now, with the biggest thorn in its side — TikTok — ...

Facebook will soon begin issuing payments to millions of users as part of a $725 million settlement over claims that the social media platform misused user data. The settlement stems from several ...

Following the 2025 inauguration of President Donald Trump, Facebook parent company Meta forced users to follow Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Users surprised to notice Trump and Vance in their ...

Facebook users are bombarded with targeted ads from nearly 200,000 companies, according to a first-of-its-kind study that revealed the vast scale of data tracking on the Meta-owned social network.