Lawsuit Against Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg has asked a US court to dismiss him as a personal defendant in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta and other social media companies of addicting children to their products. If the US court decides that Zuckerberg cannot be held personally liable in the litigation, it would have no impact on the allegations against Meta.

The US Justice Department on Monday sought to block a judge's order that barred some federal agencies and officials from communicating with social media firms about moderating content on their platforms in a decision stemming from a Republican-backed lawsuit against President Joe Biden's administration.

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits were filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court...

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Frida...

A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington, DC, against Facebook owner Meta Platforms was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead consumers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A US appeals court on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by states against Meta's Facebook that alleged the company had broken antitrust law. Dozens of states led by New York asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which US District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia rej...

Facebook's parent company Meta has agreed to pay a total of $725 million to its users to settle a lawsuit against it.

A US judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms that alleged its Facebook social media business drove a now-defunct photo software application startup out of business in violation of federal antitrust law.

Facebook has asked a London tribunal to block a mass action lawsuit against the firm that alleges the social media firm monetised users' personal data by abusing its dominant market position. The mass action lawsuit claims users should get compensation for the economic value they would have received if Facebook was not in a dominant position in the...

Former Facebook employee George Hayward has reportedly claimed that the app intentionally drains users’ phone batteries in a practice called negative testing. In a lawsuit filed against Facebook parent firm Meta at a Manhattan Federal Court, Hayward, a data scientist, claims that he was fired from his role for refusing to participate in the afore...

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

Facebook parent Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and TikTok were sued by US public schools in Seattle last week, claiming that companies purposefully designed products to hook younger users, while creating a mental health crisis. The firms have previously stated that they aim to create an enjoyable experience on their platforms for users, while removing harmf...

An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country's war has joined a lawsuit filed in Kenya against Meta, accusing Facebook's parent company of fanning violence and hate speech in Africa.

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a case by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that argues the company's proposed deal to buy virtual reality (VR) content maker Within Unlimited should be blocked. In a court document filed with the US District Court Northern District Of California on Friday, the FTC listed 18 wi...

Facebook, a Meta-owned company, is in another trouble as a number of the US states have requested an appeals court on Monday to reinstate an antitrust lawsuit against the social media platform. The lawsuit was initially filed against Facebook in 2020, close to the time when the US Federal Trade Commission also sued the company. The FTC is still fig...

Mark Zuckerberg has asked a US court to dismiss him as a personal defendant in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta and other social media companies of addicting children to their products. If the US court decides that Zuckerberg cannot be held personally liable in the litigation, it would have no impact on the allegations against Meta.

The US Justice Department on Monday sought to block a judge's order that barred some federal agencies and officials from communicating with social media firms about moderating content on their platforms in a decision stemming from a Republican-backed lawsuit against President Joe Biden's administration.

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits were filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court...

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Frida...

A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington, DC, against Facebook owner Meta Platforms was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead consumers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A US appeals court on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by states against Meta's Facebook that alleged the company had broken antitrust law. Dozens of states led by New York asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which US District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia rej...

Facebook's parent company Meta has agreed to pay a total of $725 million to its users to settle a lawsuit against it.

A US judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms that alleged its Facebook social media business drove a now-defunct photo software application startup out of business in violation of federal antitrust law.

Facebook has asked a London tribunal to block a mass action lawsuit against the firm that alleges the social media firm monetised users' personal data by abusing its dominant market position. The mass action lawsuit claims users should get compensation for the economic value they would have received if Facebook was not in a dominant position in the...

Former Facebook employee George Hayward has reportedly claimed that the app intentionally drains users’ phone batteries in a practice called negative testing. In a lawsuit filed against Facebook parent firm Meta at a Manhattan Federal Court, Hayward, a data scientist, claims that he was fired from his role for refusing to participate in the afore...

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

Facebook parent Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and TikTok were sued by US public schools in Seattle last week, claiming that companies purposefully designed products to hook younger users, while creating a mental health crisis. The firms have previously stated that they aim to create an enjoyable experience on their platforms for users, while removing harmf...

An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country's war has joined a lawsuit filed in Kenya against Meta, accusing Facebook's parent company of fanning violence and hate speech in Africa.

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a case by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that argues the company's proposed deal to buy virtual reality (VR) content maker Within Unlimited should be blocked. In a court document filed with the US District Court Northern District Of California on Friday, the FTC listed 18 wi...

Facebook, a Meta-owned company, is in another trouble as a number of the US states have requested an appeals court on Monday to reinstate an antitrust lawsuit against the social media platform. The lawsuit was initially filed against Facebook in 2020, close to the time when the US Federal Trade Commission also sued the company. The FTC is still fig...