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Supreme Court appears split in Facebook lawsuit tied to data breach

A group of Facebook investors sued in 2018, saying the social media giant gave misleading statements and omitted key information about a data breach.

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., in January. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided over whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Meta’s Facebook of misleading investors about risks from a massive data privacy breach.

A group of Facebook investors sued the social media giant in 2018 after its stock price dropped following revelations that the Republican-aligned political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained the personal information of 30 million Facebook users.