MARK Zuckerberg has been called to appear for a deposition in a case stemming from Facebook’s wrongful use of data.
The suit is filed on behalf of users from California affected by a major data harvesting scandal.
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Zuckerberg will be forced to give six hours’ worth of testimony under oath.
Court filings indicate Facebook will turn over 1,200 documents that were “previously withheld as privileged”.
Other key Meta executives including outgoing COO Sheryl Sandberg and her replacement Javier Olivan will be deposed as well.
If a defendant is found to have intentionally lied while under oath, they can be charged with perjury.
In 2019, Facebook was fined a record $5billion for turning over the profiles of more than 50million users to a political modeling company called Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica is a British company that helps businesses “change audience behaviour”, and supposedly helped get US President Donald Trump elected.
Zuckerberg was questioned by members of Congress in a highly publicized grilling in which he said his own personal data was obtained by Cambridge Analytica.
The company’s October 2021 rebrand as Meta and pivot to fleshing out the metaverse has been interpreted as a face-saving effort.
Brand strategy expert Anne Olderog told Business Insider the facelift was meant to “divert the conversation from their current problems onto the metaverse, which is exciting and futuristic.”
Facebook has thundered through scandals before but the Cambridge Analytica situation has proven to have sticking power as Zuckerberg is called back for deposition more than seven years after the act.
The Facebook crew is expected to appear for depositions over the next two months, The Guardian reports.
Meta is also being sued by the Washington DC Attorney General who is taking very direct aim at Zuckerberg for his role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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