As a reminder, 50 million Facebook users’ profiles were harvested by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica without permission. It was used to build profiles on US voters and target them with personalized political ads during the 2016 election race in an attempt to help Donald Trump win the presidency.
Racine’s lawsuit alleges that Zuckerberg was personally involved in failures that led to the Cambridge Analytica incident, and that his “policies enabled a multi-year effort to mislead users about the extent of Facebook’s wrongful conduct.” It adds that the scandal was a result of Zuckerberg wanting to open Facebook up to third-party developers and that he was aware of the associated risks of data leaks.