Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end trial over Facebook privacy litigation


FILE PHOTO: Mark Zuckerberg attends the 2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica, California, U.S., April 5, 2025. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users' privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.

They parties did not disclose further details of the settlement and defense lawyers did not address the judge, Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. McCormick adjourned the trial just as it was to enter its second day and she congratulated the parties.

Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who is a defendant in the trial and a Meta director, was scheduled to testify on Thursday.

(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware;Editing by Noeleen Walder, David Gregorio and Chizu Nomiyama)

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