Facebook will reportedly pay $40 million for allegedly inflating video metrics

Facebook is doling out a seemingly small sum to brush away its video troubles. Facebook has reportedly reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging it falsely inflated viewership metrics on its videos by up to 900 percent. Advertising firms on Monday started revealing the details of that settlement, which includes a $40 million payment that'll largely be distributed to advertisers who allegedly didn't get the video viewership they paid for, per The Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit started in Octobe...