CEO Mark Zuckerberg to be interrogated for '6 hours' in class action lawsuit


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Anthony Quintano

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly had to testify for up to six hours due to a class action lawsuit over the 2018 Facebook scandal.

Mark Zuckerberg to face deposition over Cambridge Analytica scandal | Meta | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/20/mark-zuckerberg-deposition-cambridge-analytica-facebook

Mr. Zuckerberg, who launched Facebook while studying at Harvard University and became the CEO of one of America's leading companies called 'Big Tech' at a young age, has recently been severely pursued by American society due to scandals of Facebook and its parent company Meta. It has been done, and there are people on the Internet who say, 'I'm collecting pictures of Zuckerberg who lost his eyes because he was hit by a bump.'



One of the biggest problems facing Mr. Zuckerberg is that a whistleblower revealed that the personal information of 50 million Facebook users was being used without permission by the analytics company Cambridge Analytica in 2018. scandal of the year. This problem, which is said to have affected the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election and the UK's withdrawal from the EU, is also called ``the world's largest privacy incident ''.

News media The Guardian reported on July 20, 2022 that Mr. Zuckerberg was interrogated for six hours in a class action lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Reportedly, a document submitted to the San Francisco Federal Court said that Mr. Zuckerberg agreed to take a deposit for up to six hours.

Deposition means that the plaintiff can interrogate the defendant and obtain testimony in the presence of a notary public as part of the pre-trial disclosure procedure in civil lawsuits in the United States. Testimony is made under oath and remains in writing, so if you make a false statement, you will be subject to penalties for perjury.

Zuckerberg is joined by longtime Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who is set to retire in the fall of 2022, for up to five hours, and her successor, Javier Olivan, for the longest. We are facing a three hour long stretch.



Robert Frenchman, a lawyer at the law firm Mukasey Frenchman in New York, pointed out that although it is unusual for a time limit to be set for deposition in civil lawsuits, it will be an advantageous place for plaintiffs. “Plaintiffs have had the opportunity to pursue Meta executives vigorously and are free to speak out on a wide range of issues in this deposition. Conversely, Meta will have more to lose than gain.” I commented.

Plaintiffs, who have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Facebook users affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, have obtained 13 years of documentary evidence from Meta through a series of discovery procedures. Meta, on the other hand, has rallied, accusing plaintiffs of collecting evidence in a document of 'constant and continuous excesses.'

The exact date and location of the deposition is unknown, but it is expected to take place by September 20th. It is also customary for the deposition to take place at the law firm of the party seeking the deposition.

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