The political consultancy was accused in 2018 of illegally harvesting the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users and Facebook has been the subject of a number of lawsuits - but this is the first time Zuckerberg is being sued personally.
's parent company which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has a market value of more than $500 billion .Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerIt comes as Google, Amazon, and Apple have been targeted in legal actions in recent years by federal regulators and state attorneys general of both parties accusing the tech behemoths of market dominance and abuse.
But a D.C. Superior Court judge thwarted that attempt in March, saying that Racine had waited too long to add him."What value does it add to name him? There's no more relief for the consumers of the District," Judge Maurice Ross said at the time. Now, Mr Racine is asserting that thousands of documents he has since gained access to in the case establish Zuckerberg's direct participation in decision-making on Cambridge Analytica, and he is therefore suing Zuckerberg directly.
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