Facebook forced to pay €50m to silence founder’s roommates

A LAW firm has let slip that Facebook paid $65 million (e50m) to settle a suit charging that founder Mark Zuckerberg swiped the idea for the website from former college roommates.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges law firm boasted in an advertising brochure about outcomes of an array of cases it handled last year, among them a $65m settlement from Facebook.

The law firm’s ad brags that it is a sound investment and that “it’s our opponents who needed a bailout”.