New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- Facebook has started making payments to users as part of its $725 million privacy settlement, according to Newsweek. This settlement results from class action lawsuits tied to the Cambridge Analytica controversy, which revealed that Facebook shared private information of millions of users with the British political consulting firm before the 2016 presidential election in the US.

Facebook had improperly shared data of over 50 million users with Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct British political consulting firm that worked with Donald Trump's campaign in 2016, as per The Guardian. The scandal came to light in 2018.

According to Newsweek, the current $725 million privacy settlement stems from lawsuits filed against...