Facebook Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit

The US Supreme Court will soon decide whether to allow a longstanding shareholder lawsuit against Meta's Facebook to proceed or to dismiss it as lawyers for the social media giant have asked.

The lawsuit involves a 2015 incident in which UK-based consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data from a third-party firm and used it to create granular profiles for targeting users during political campaigns, on behalf of the Trump campaign. News of the data misuse surfaced in 2018 and provoked considerable concern in the US and elsewhere over privacy violations, data protection, and the role of social media in influencing politics.

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