Facebook paid FTC fine of $5 billion (shareholder's money) to shield Zuckerberg.

324. At a July 24, 2019 press conference, James Kohm—the FTC staff
attorney who led the Facebook investigation—suggested that Facebook gave the
FTC relief it could not have obtained in court in exchange for letting Zuckerberg off
the hook without even sitting for a deposition. Kohm stated: “[p]art of getting this
tremendous result...is we didn’t need to depose [Zuckerberg] but we could use
that. ...If there was something, we could get for something ...This case—we got
a lot of relief that we couldn’t otherwise have obtained and that is in some small part
due to not going further. ...[Zuckerberg,] if he’s deposed, exposes himself to a huge
amount of litigation outside of the Federal Trade Commission.”
 
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