D.C. sues Meta chief Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data scandal
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB), is facing a lawsuit from the District of Columbia over issues relating back to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed suit in order to hold Zuckerberg liable for direct involvement in abuse of data and for misleading Facebook's users about their privacy protection.

The suit says Zuckerberg took part in decisions allowing Cambridge Analytica - in 2016, allied with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump - to tap personal data from millions of users.
The move marks an escalation of Racine's pressure on the company. He had sued Meta Platforms over the issue in 2018 in a case still ongoing. And last year he tried to add Zuckerberg to that suit, before that was rejected by a judge; now Racine is working off hundreds of thousands of new document pages.
Now Racine says, "This unprecedented security breach exposed tens of millions of Americansâ personal information, and Mr. Zuckerbergâs policies enabled a multi-year effort to mislead users about the extent of Facebookâs wrongful conduct."