Meta settles shareholder privacy suit without answers Mark Zuckerberg and a group of past and present Meta bosses have wriggled out of an ugly $8 billion privacy trial, cutting a last-minute deal before the second day of testimony.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and other company board members settled a shareholder lawsuit on Thursday concerning decisions made in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, Mark Andreessen, and others are facing trial, sued for billions over lax data protection at Facebook.