The eagerly anticipated disbursements from the historic $725 million Facebook settlement are at last being distributed to the eligible users.
The payment distribution will start in August 2025 and will span over a period of 10 weeks, according to Angeion, the organization managing the settlement, which confirmed the timeline online.
This event traces back a few years when Meta, Facebook’s parent company, decided to resolve allegations by paying $725 million. These claims accused Facebook of allowing users’ personal data to be accessed by third parties, notably Cambridge Analytica, the consulting firm involved in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The settlement drew attention when it received final approval in 2023 due to its unprecedented size. Essentially, anyone with a Facebook account in the U.S. between 2007 and 2022 was eligible for a share of the settlement.
Upon final approval, Angeion was processing around 28 million claims, determining which were legitimate and discarding any fraudulent or duplicate submissions.
“To our knowledge, this represents the largest volume of claims submitted in a class action case in the United States,” Lesley Weaver, the plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel, mentioned in court.
In late 2023, Angeion confirmed it had validated at least 17 million of the 28 million claims filed. That means at least 17 million people should be receiving a payment starting over the next 10 or so weeks.
But because so many people qualified, the size of each individual payout was expected to be relatively small. The exact amount depends on how long you’ve had an active Facebook account, but lawyers told Judge Vince Chhabria they expected the median payment to be around $30.
If you were one of the millions who submitted a claim by the August 2023 deadline, and your claim was approved, you’ll get your payment by the method you selected when you filed. It could come as a direct deposit to your bank account, a prepaid gift card in the mail or a PayPal payment.
Nexstar reached out to Angeion for more details on how many people ended up qualifying for a payout, what date the first payments started or will start, and exactly how big each payment could be, but didn’t hear back.
It has taken nearly two years since the settlement was approved to start issuing payments because the proceeding was delayed by multiple appeals. Both appeals filed by objectors were resolved in May 2025.
