{"id":2971,"date":"2021-09-24T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:48:36","slug":"facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u2018overpaid in data settlement to avoid naming Zuckerberg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit alleges settlement in Cambridge Analytica case driven by desire to protect founder<\/p>\n<p>Facebook paid $4.9bn more than necessary to the US Federal Trade Commission in a settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal in order to protect Mark Zuckerberg, a lawsuit has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that the size of the $5bn settlement was driven by a desire to protect Facebook\u2019s founder and chief executive from being named in the FTC complaint.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/24\/facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2022d661bfda4e566b0c5e69317ac8d20a795147\/643_454_2171_1302\/master\/2171.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f31572fe9bccca550d6e2c6c228b039e\" title=\"Facebook \u2018overpaid in data settlement to avoid naming Zuckerberg\u2019\" \/>Lawsuit alleges settlement in Cambridge Analytica case driven by desire to protect founder<br \/>\nFacebook paid $4.9bn more than necessary to the US Federal Trade Commission in a settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal in order to protect Mark Zuckerberg, a lawsuit has claimed.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit alleges that the size of the $5bn settlement was driven by a desire to protect Facebook\u2019s founder and chief executive from being named in the FTC complaint. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit alleges settlement in Cambridge Analytica case driven by desire to protect founder Facebook paid $4.9bn more than necessary to the US Federal Trade Commission in a settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal in order to protect Mark Zuckerberg, a lawsuit has claimed. The lawsuit alleges that the size of the $5bn settlement was driven &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook \u2018overpaid in data settlement to avoid naming Zuckerberg\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}