Claim: According to an August 2020 email, some former Google Plus users were eligible for a cash payment from a 2018 lawsuit settlement after a software issue exposed the private data of up to half a million users of the social network.
Fact-check: Is This Email About a Google Plus Settlement Real?
Verdict: true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Nur Ibrahim
Date published: 2020-08-07T10:23:09