Facebook might be required to pay a $5 billion dollar fine to the Federal Trade Commission, as a settlement of the investigation of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a report published by Bloomberg Law.

Customarily, these settlements are published for consultation, and become final several weeks or months later.

• FTC Guidance – Six Steps Towards More Secure Cloud Computing
• Social Networking App to pay $5.7 M Fine in COPPA Case
• Yelp to pay $450,000 penalty for COPPA violation