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Meta commences layoffs, faces $725m settlement
Meta再裁4000人 開始賠付7.25億美元天價和解費
Facebook's parent company Meta has initiated a new wave of massive layoffs.
據美國媒體報道，社交媒體“臉書”母公司Meta開啟新一輪大規模裁員。
The company laid off 4,000 employees on Wednesday, with more expected in May, according to Vox.com.
4月19日該公司裁員4000人，預計更多裁員將在5月進行。
In March, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta planned to cut 11,000 jobs in the coming months.
該公司CEO馬克?扎克伯格曾在3月表示，Meta計劃在今年春季裁員1.1萬人。
In November, Meta had let go 11,000 employees, approximately 13 percent of its workforce.
去年11月，Meta已經裁掉了1.1萬個工作崗位，大約13%的員工。
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面臨著口碑滑坡、用戶流失、收入下滑的困境。
Additionally, the company must pay a $725 million settlement this year.
公司還將在今年賠付一筆7.25億美元的巨額和解費用。
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年有爆料稱，英國數據挖掘企業“劍橋分析”通過一款性格測試應用，獲取了8700萬臉譜網用戶的數據，引發對臉譜網的集體訴訟。
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.
原告稱，臉譜網在未經用戶同意的情況下，允許第三方訪問用戶數據且未能充分監控第三方如何使用這些數據。
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，臉譜網同意就此案達成和解，并向2007年至2022年使用過臉譜網的用戶支付7.25億美元的和解費。
That was the largest privacy class action settlement in US history.
這創下了美國數據隱私類集體訴訟的最高賠償。
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