Facebook privacy settlement overview:
- Who: Facebook users who held accounts between 2007 and 2022 and who received a payment from the 2023 Facebook privacy settlement.
- Why: Approximately $100 million remain in unclaimed funds that will now be redistributed.
- Where: The second round of payments was approved in California federal court.
A second round of payments is going out in the $725 million Facebook privacy class action settlement, giving eligible claimants a bonus check nearly a year after the first round was distributed.
The class action lawsuit was brought by Facebook users who alleged the social media company improperly shared their personal data with third parties.
The lawsuits were sparked by the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a data firm scraped Facebook user information to build voter profiles.
Facebook’s parent company Meta agreed to pay $725 million to resolve the class action lawsuit without admitting liability or wrongdoing.
About 19 million claims were validated out of an estimated 250 million eligible users — anyone with a Facebook account during the covered period could file.
The first round of payments went out in September 2025, with an average payout of $29.43 and a range of roughly $4 to $38 per person after attorneys’ fees and administrative costs were deducted.
Not everyone redeemed their initial payment. More than 200,000 paper checks went uncashed, and 3 million digital payments were left to expire, leaving approximately $100 million in undistributed funds.
A U.S. District Court in California approved redistributing that remaining money to the approximately 15.7 million class members who successfully cashed or spent their first payment.
Second-round payments range from $4.67 to $7.32 per eligible claimant
The Facebook privacy settlement’s second-round payments began going out on June 9, 2026, and are expected to be distributed in batches over approximately four weeks.
According to court documents, the minimum bonus payment is $4.67 and the maximum is $7.32 — smaller than the first round given the reduced pool of available funds.
Eligible recipients are being notified by the settlement administrator via email three to four days before their individual payment is scheduled to arrive.
Payments are being sent through whichever method the claimant originally selected, including check, direct deposit, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or prepaid debit card.
Only those who received and successfully redeemed a first-round payment qualify for the bonus distribution. People who never cashed or activated their initial payout are not eligible for this second round.
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The Facebook privacy class action lawsuit is In re: Facebook Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, Case No. 3:18-md-02843-VC, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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