Did you have a Facebook account between May 24, 2007 and December 22 of 2022? Then you may be eligible for a settlement payment.
在2007年5月24日到2022年12月22日之间,你是否拥有过一个Facebook账号?如果有,那你可能就有资格获得一份和解费用。
Facebook boasts more than two billion active users, making it one of the largest social media companies, but its popularity has been impacted recently.
Facebook自称拥有超过20亿的活跃用户,这也使得它成为了最大的社交媒体公司之一,但最近它的受欢迎程度受到了影响。
The company has laid off another round of workers Wednesday, as part of job cuts announced earlier this year by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook首席执行官马克·扎克伯格在今年年初宣布了一个裁员计划,作为计划的一部分,该公司于周三进行了又一轮裁员。
And long before that was announced, the company had been involved in another scandal.
而早在宣布这一消息之前,该公司就卷入了另一起丑闻。
"They gave access of our data to a third party."
“Facebook把我们的数据给了第三方。”
That third party was a data analytics firm that worked with the Trump campaign, a class-action lawsuit was filed.
该第三方是一家与特朗普竞选团队合作的数据分析公司,集体诉讼在此前已经提起。
Four years later, Facebook agreed to settle, and a federal judge here in California approved it preliminarily in December.
四年后,Facebook同意和解,去年12月,加州一名联邦法官初步批准了和解。
Now Facebook users can apply to get a piece of that $725 million settlement.
如今,Facebook用户可以申请从这笔总金额达7.25亿美元的和解费用中分得一杯羹。
The Facebook has denied any wrongdoing. A final settlement approval hearing is set for September 7.
但Facebook方面否认自己有任何不当行为。最终和解批准听证会定于今年9月7日举行。
If there's no appeals, the settlement payments would be distributed after that, but the time to apply is now.
如果没有上诉,和解费用将在那之后分配,但申请则是从现在开始。
The online claim form says that applications are due by 11:59 P.M. on August 25 of this year.
在线申请表格显示,申请截止时间为今年8月25日晚上11点59分。