Seattle Schools Sue Social Media Platforms Over Mental Health Crisis
The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them ...
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What’s Next: Are Social Media Addiction Lawsuits Just the Beginning?
The lead-up to mass litigation in the United States has a predictable sequence: Commercial enterprises unleash a new technology that delights consumers and garners handsome profits for ...
Facebook to Pay $90M to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking
Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' Internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website. A proposed ...
Facebook Faces $150M Class-Action Lawsuit From Rohingya Refugees Over Myanmar Violence
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, for $150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate ...
Facebook Warned It Faces Criminal Prosecution in UK for Failing to Keep Users Safe
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries warned Facebook Inc. and its chiefs are on course for criminal prosecution for failing to reign in the harmful effects of its platform. "Why would we give them two ...
U.S. FTC Has Until Aug. 18 to File Amended Facebook Complaint
A U.S. judge on Friday gave the U.S. Federal Trade Commission until Aug. 19 to file an amended complaint in its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Inc, an extension of three weeks from the previous ...
Cyber Alert: U.S. a Top Target for Facebook-Focused Foreign Influence Operations
The United States topped a list of the countries most frequently targeted by deceptive foreign influence operations using Facebook between 2017 and 2020, the social media company said in a new report ...
SCOTUS Bars Class Action Lawsuit Against Facebook Under Anti-Robocall Law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday barred a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Facebook Inc of violating a federal anti-robocall law, sparing the social media company from a potentially costly ...
SCOTUS Spurns Facebook’s Appeal in User Tracking Lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when ...