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Meta再裁4000人 开始赔付7.25亿美元天价和解费

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Meta commences layoffs, faces $725m settlement

Meta再裁4000人 开始赔付7.25亿美元天价和解费

Facebook's parent company Meta has initiated a new wave of massive layoffs.

据美国媒体报道,社交媒体“脸书”母公司Meta开启新一轮大规模裁员。

The company laid off 4,000 employees on Wednesday, with more expected in May, according to Vox.com.

4月19日该公司裁员4000人,预计更多裁员将在5月进行。

In March, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta planned to cut 11,000 jobs in the coming months.

该公司CEO马克?扎克伯格曾在3月表示,Meta计划在今年春季裁员1.1万人。

In November, Meta had let go 11,000 employees, approximately 13 percent of its workforce.

去年11月,Meta已经裁掉了1.1万个工作岗位,大约13%的员工。

Meta's investment in the Metaverse has resulted in declining revenue and a decrease in user engagement.

自押注“元宇宙”概念失策后,Meta面临着口碑滑坡、用户流失、收入下滑的困境。

Additionally, the company must pay a $725 million settlement this year.

公司还将在今年赔付一笔7.25亿美元的巨额和解费用。

The 2018 revelation that data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained data from up to 87 million Facebook users through a personality-quiz app prompted a class action lawsuit against Meta.

2018年有爆料称,英国数据挖掘企业“剑桥分析”通过一款性格测试应用,获取了8700万脸谱网用户的数据,引发对脸谱网的集体诉讼。

Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook had granted third parties access to users’ content and information without their consent and failed to monitor how it was being used.

原告称,脸谱网在未经用户同意的情况下,允许第三方访问用户数据且未能充分监控第三方如何使用这些数据。

In December, Facebook agreed to settle the case by paying a total of $725 million to Facebook users who had signed up between 2007 and 2022.

2022年12月,脸谱网同意就此案达成和解,并向2007年至2022年使用过脸谱网的用户支付7.25亿美元的和解费。

That was the largest privacy class action settlement in US history.

这创下了美国数据隐私类集体诉讼的最高赔偿。

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