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Meta offered $51 million to Canadian Facebook users

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Meta is facing lawsuits from four states over an advertising program on Facebook called Sponsored Stories that ran from 2011 to 2014.

Some of the Canadian Facebook users have been offered $51 million in a class action lawsuit by Meta.

The lawyer who is representing the case against the giant social media company said that this settlement proposal sent by Meta is a positive sign for other companies as well.

Meta is facing lawsuits from four states over an advertising program on Facebook called Sponsored Stories that ran from 2011 to 2014. People's names and pictures were used in this program without their knowledge.

Now Meta is offering $51 million to settle these lawsuits. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by a BC woman, who was joined by citizens of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the Sponsored Stories program, if a user likes a product, Facebook creates a news feed endorsement using their name and profile photo, but they are not informed about it.

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