Mark Zuckerberg and Meta shareholders agree to settle an $US8 billion lawsuit over claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

The class action lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders concerns privacy breaches related to Cambridge Analytica. Investors claim Meta failed to disclose risks as Facebook violated an FTC consent order.

Meta’s executives will meet in a Delaware court starting Wednesday over a lawsuit filed by three minority shareholders who allege that the company’s board of directors failed to enforce privacy rules.

Delaware court to hear testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, executives and directors in rare case that begins this week

But research in this area is still in its early stages. A study published this spring showed that Llama can reproduce much more of its training text than was previously thought, including near-exact copies of books such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 1984.

A German court has fined Meta €5,000 ($5,900) for violating European privacy laws by embedding tracking technology in third-party websites.