For many annoyed to find their Facebook data was leaked to Cambridge Analytica, a $22,455 payout would soften the blow. But that's not likely to happen.

The app's creator, Aleksandr Kogan, said the messaging data was used for an academic research project about emojis, and not shared with Cambridge Analytica.

While it's well-known that Facebook allows businesses to mine data from user profiles, the Cambridge Analytica controversy put the spotlight on data mined for academic and political purposes.

Facebook has come under fire this week for allowing the data of over 50 million users to be accessed by the political and corporate consulting firm, who worked with the Trump campaign during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

Facebook has been rocked this week by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica, a British-based firm hired by Trump for his election campaign, had improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to build detailed profiles on American voters.