Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives have put an end to the $8 billion Cambridge Analytica privacy lawsuit with a settlement. Meta decided to avoid drawing the kind of attention that allowing the privacy scandal to go to trial would have had by settling with the suing shareholders.

A settlement has been reached in a class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders over claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.