In a turn of events that may be a relief to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the top Meta executives will not have to depose in a lawsuit about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. According to The Verge, the parent company of social media giant Facebook has reached an out-of-court settlement with the plaintiffs, sparing the executives from having to testify.
As per a document filed on August 26 in San Francisco court, Facebook (now Meta) states that it is submitting a draft ‘agreement in principle’ and has requested a stay of proceedings for 60 days to finalise it. In the absence of a settlement, the two executive would had to testify before September 20