{"id":946752,"date":"2025-07-15T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946752"},"modified":"2025-07-15T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:34:59","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-vs-meta-shareholders-in-8-billion-trial-read-the-list-of-high-profile-executives-named-in-this-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/15\/mark-zuckerberg-vs-meta-shareholders-in-8-billion-trial-read-the-list-of-high-profile-executives-named-in-this-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg vs Meta shareholders in $8 billion trial: Read the list of high-profile executives named in this case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is set to appear this week as a key witness in an $8 billion trial. He stands accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed widespread harvesting of user data without consent, news agency Reuters reported. Shareholders of the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, have sued Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders, claiming these individuals consistently violated a 2012 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) designed to protect user data.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit stems from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from millions of Facebook users was accessed by the now-defunct political consulting firm that worked for Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 US presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is set to appear this week as a key witness in an $8 billion trial. He stands accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed widespread harvesting of user data without consent, news agency Reuters reported. Shareholders of the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, have sued Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders, claiming these individuals consistently violated a 2012 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) designed to protect user data. The lawsuit stems from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from millions of Facebook users was accessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}