Approved claims, which were filed in 2023, will begin receiving payments over the next 10 weeks for Facebook's privacy breach. Alicia Windzio/picture-alliance/dpa/AP

Facebook users who filed a claim in parent company Meta’s $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal may soon get a payment.

It’s been over two years since Facebook users were able to file claims in Meta’s December 2022 settlement. The class-action lawsuit began after the social media giant said in 2018 that as many as 87 million Facebook users’ private information was obtained by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica , which had worked with President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign .

Meta was accused of allowing Cambridge Analytica and other third parties, including developers, advertiser

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