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US Supreme Court Tosses Case Involving Securities Fraud Suit Against Facebook
The US Supreme Court sidestepped on Friday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Meta's Facebook of misleading investors about the misuse of the social media platform's user data.
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Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Personal Liability In Meta Addiction Cases
A federal judge again rejected a bid to hold Mark Zuckerberg individually liable in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies of addicting children to their products.
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Facebook, Nvidia Ask US Supreme Court to Spare Them from Securities Fraud Suits
Social media platform Facebook and Artificial Intelligence chipmaker Nvidia appealed to the Supreme Court after the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed separate class action securities fraud lawsuits to proceed against them.
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US Court Rules Meta Must Face Lawsuits Over Teen Addiction To Social Media
Facebook parent company Meta must face lawsuits by U.S. states accusing it of encouraging social media addiction among teens, a federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday.
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TikTok Must Face Lawsuit Over 10-Year-Old Girl's Death: US Court
A US appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral "blackout challenge" in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves until they passed out.
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Elon Musk's X Sues Group Over "Illegal" Ad Boycott That Cost Billions
Elon Musk's X Corp. filed a lawsuit accusing an industry group of violating antitrust laws for an advertising boycott that cost the social media company billions of dollars.
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US Sues TikTok Over "Massive-Scale" Privacy Violations Of Kids Under 13
The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children's privacy on the social media app.
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Musk Suggests Late Twitter Disclosure Was A Mistake, Seeks To End Lawsuit
Elon Musk wants to dismiss a lawsuit by former Twitter shareholders who said he waited too long in early 2022 to reveal his large ownership stake in the social media company, saying "all indications" show his delay was a mistake.
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Elon Musk's X Corp Loses Lawsuit Against Israeli Data-Scraping Company
A US judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.
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Elon Musk's X Corp Appeals Dismissal Of Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Group
Elon Musk's X appealed the dismissal of its lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which faulted him for letting hate speech spread on the social media platform once known as Twitter.
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Donald Trump Sues Truth Social Co-Founders, Accuses Them Of Mismanagement
The lawsuit added, "Without President Trump, Truth Social would have been impossible."
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Mark Zuckerberg Seeks to Avoid Personal Liability in Lawsuits Blaming Him for Kids' Instagram Addiction
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.
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Meta, X And TikTok CEOs To Face US Senate Questioning Over Child Safety
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the chief executives of X, TikTok, Discord and Snap face a grilling by US lawmakers on Wednesday over the dangers that social media platforms bring to children and teens.
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X Corp To File Case Against Media Watchdog For Pausing Ads: Elon Musk
X Corp will be filing a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform, soon after major US companies paused their advertisements on his social media site.
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Google Sues Scammers Over Fake Bard AI Chatbot That Downloads Malware
Alphabet’s Google is suing five unidentified scammers who tricked people looking for Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard into downloading malware onto their computers. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, Google claimed the scammers set up social media accounts encouraging people to download a fake version of Bar...
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US Supreme Court Tosses Case Involving Securities Fraud Suit Against Facebook
The US Supreme Court sidestepped on Friday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Meta's Facebook of misleading investors about the misuse of the social media platform's user data.
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Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Personal Liability In Meta Addiction Cases
A federal judge again rejected a bid to hold Mark Zuckerberg individually liable in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies of addicting children to their products.
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Facebook, Nvidia Ask US Supreme Court to Spare Them from Securities Fraud Suits
Social media platform Facebook and Artificial Intelligence chipmaker Nvidia appealed to the Supreme Court after the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed separate class action securities fraud lawsuits to proceed against them.
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US Court Rules Meta Must Face Lawsuits Over Teen Addiction To Social Media
Facebook parent company Meta must face lawsuits by U.S. states accusing it of encouraging social media addiction among teens, a federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday.
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TikTok Must Face Lawsuit Over 10-Year-Old Girl's Death: US Court
A US appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral "blackout challenge" in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves until they passed out.
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Elon Musk's X Sues Group Over "Illegal" Ad Boycott That Cost Billions
Elon Musk's X Corp. filed a lawsuit accusing an industry group of violating antitrust laws for an advertising boycott that cost the social media company billions of dollars.
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US Sues TikTok Over "Massive-Scale" Privacy Violations Of Kids Under 13
The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children's privacy on the social media app.
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Musk Suggests Late Twitter Disclosure Was A Mistake, Seeks To End Lawsuit
Elon Musk wants to dismiss a lawsuit by former Twitter shareholders who said he waited too long in early 2022 to reveal his large ownership stake in the social media company, saying "all indications" show his delay was a mistake.
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Elon Musk's X Corp Loses Lawsuit Against Israeli Data-Scraping Company
A US judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform.
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Elon Musk's X Corp Appeals Dismissal Of Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Group
Elon Musk's X appealed the dismissal of its lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which faulted him for letting hate speech spread on the social media platform once known as Twitter.
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Donald Trump Sues Truth Social Co-Founders, Accuses Them Of Mismanagement
The lawsuit added, "Without President Trump, Truth Social would have been impossible."
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Mark Zuckerberg Seeks to Avoid Personal Liability in Lawsuits Blaming Him for Kids' Instagram Addiction
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.
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Meta, X And TikTok CEOs To Face US Senate Questioning Over Child Safety
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the chief executives of X, TikTok, Discord and Snap face a grilling by US lawmakers on Wednesday over the dangers that social media platforms bring to children and teens.
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X Corp To File Case Against Media Watchdog For Pausing Ads: Elon Musk
X Corp will be filing a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform, soon after major US companies paused their advertisements on his social media site.
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Google Sues Scammers Over Fake Bard AI Chatbot That Downloads Malware
Alphabet’s Google is suing five unidentified scammers who tricked people looking for Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard into downloading malware onto their computers. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, Google claimed the scammers set up social media accounts encouraging people to download a fake version of Bar...
