The CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg will have to testify in federal court over their alleged involvement in the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The depositions will take place next September, at least 5 years after the revelation of her work Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica was a British political consultancy that used its users' data Facebook to target and lobby potential votersconditions before elections of 2016 in his favor Donald Trump.
After the scandal that followed, an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (Federal Trade Commission) began, which led Facebook to agree to a record $5 billion settlement about its privacy practices.
A new command (PDF) filed in the Northern District of California on Tuesday shows that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg agreed to testify for six and five hours respectively in September of this year.
The new filings are due to a class-action lawsuit filed against Meta, which claims it violated consumer privacy laws when it shared user data with Cambridge Analytica in 2015.
In addition to Zuckerberg and Sandberg, the court is also seeking to testify from current Meta CTO Javier Olivan — who previously served as the company's Chief Growth Officer — as well as several other "key witnesses."
Olivan's testimony is expected to last three hours. According to Tuesday's order, Meta will also have to hand over 1.200 documents "previously held by the company as confidential."
