Meta shareholders are demanding $8 billion for an alleged privacy scandal at Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, based on allegations that executives (including Zuckerberg himself and former COO Sheryl Sandberg) conducted illegal data harvesting,

An $8 billion trial by Meta Platforms shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders kicked off on Wednesday over claims they illegally harvested the data of Facebook users in violation of a 2012 agreement with the U.

Meta shareholders have launched an $8 billion lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, and other executives, accusing them of failing to prevent the Cambridge Analytica data breach and violating a 2012 FTC privacy agreement.