Summary:
- You have one week to apply for Facebook settlement money.
- Claiming the settlement money is super easy and requires only 30 seconds of work.
- Eligibility for the settlement if you used Facebook in the U.S. between May 2007 and December 2022.
- Facebook's parent company, meta, agreed to a $725 million settlement in a privacy lawsuit.
- Settlement linked to Facebook's mishandling of user data and its connection to Cambridge Analytica.
You hear that one week. You have one week to apply for Facebook settlement money. Yes, it's real. Yes, it's super easy and no, you're not going to make some big bucks. It's probably going to get you a free lunch, but all you gotta do is 30 seconds of work to get that free lunch money. Alright, let's take a look at the claim form. It's pretty straightforward.
Name, address, a current email address are required. You'll be asked for this email address that's associated with your Facebook account, also your phone number and the username of your page. You can get your payment, get this by a prepaid MasterCard, by PayPal, by Venmo, direct deposit to your bank, Zell. You can even get a paper check mailed to you if you want it. A lot of people are eligible for this and this is if you happen to use Facebook in the U.S. between May 2007 and December 2022, then you might get a piece of this settlement, even though it might not be that much.
So why is the settlement happening in the first place? While meta, Facebook's parent company agreed to a $725 million settlement. It was all part of a privacy lawsuit, which claimed Facebook allowed millions of its users' personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica. That's a firm that supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. What he wants to know is making it easy for you to get your money, so go to this article on our website. We'll have a link to the Facebook settlement site for you.