The settlement abruptly halted a high-profile trial in Delaware Chancery Court just as Zuckerberg and others were scheduled to testify.

The FTC fined Facebook $5 billion in 2019 after finding that it failed to comply with a 2012 agreement with the regulator to protect users' data.

A last-minute settlement between Meta Platforms shareholders and the company's leadership last week ended an $8 billion trial and spared Mark Zuckerberg from testifying about alleged violations of Facebook users' data.