US EditionFacebook settlement payment sizes revealed: Here’s the minimum (and maximum) you’ll get
Payments average $29.42, with a maximum of $38.36, distributed over 10 weeks to settle lawsuits on Facebook's misuse of private data since 2007.
- Meta Platforms Inc. began distributing payments from a $725 million Facebook privacy settlement in early September 2025 in Menlo Park, California.
- The settlement resulted from numerous lawsuits over Facebook's alleged misuse of user data, including the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal involving about 87 million profiles.
- Court-Appointed administrator Ad Angeion is handling payments, which are being issued in multiple batches across approximately 10 weeks, based on the number of months users actively maintained their Facebook accounts from mid-2007 through the end of 2022.
- Eligible users will receive between $4.89 and $38.36 depending on account activity duration, with an average payout around $29.43, and will be notified by email days before payment.
- This settlement ranks among the largest class-action lawsuits in the U.S. based on the number of approved claims, with tens of millions submitted, highlighting continued attention to data privacy and legal challenges faced by Meta.
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