Law 360

JULY 26, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc. told the Second Circuit a defunct photo app knew back in 2016 about changes the social networking company made to its Instagram feeds and waited too long to file an antitrust case alleging the changes drove it out of business.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Meta Platforms Inc. Meta took action by blocking internet traffic from its products, Instagram and Facebook, to Social Data’s website. Meta also claims that Social Data acted to execute fraudulent schemes and to wrongfully collect data in violation of California Penal Code § 502(c)(1).

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2024

A New York federal judge on Friday refused to toss a proposed class action against online education company Pearson Education Inc. alleging it illegally shared subscribers' personal information with Meta Platforms Inc.,

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A California federal judge on Friday said she's inclined to deny the bulk of Meta Platforms Inc.'s

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MARCH 14, 2024

An Ohio federal judge has ruled that the publisher of The Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can't duck a proposed privacy class action alleging that the newspapers shared the video-viewing history of their website users with Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., without their permission.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

federal court its case accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of monopolizing the personal social networking market could be ready for trial later this year, despite the company saying the case is too complex to start that soon. The Federal Trade Commission told a D.C.

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Law 360

APRIL 28, 2023

A California federal judge on Friday consolidated proposed class actions alleging GoodRx Holdings, Google LLP, Meta Platforms Inc. and Criteo Corp.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A Kenyan court ruled Monday that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, can be sued in a case involving mental injury to a former Facebook moderator in the course of his employment. Justice Jacob Gakeri rejected Meta Platform Inc.’s

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Law 360

AUGUST 26, 2022

Facebook users told a California federal judge Friday they have reached a "settlement in principle" with parent company Meta Platforms Inc. to resolve multidistrict litigation stemming from the social media company's involvement in the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

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Law 360

JANUARY 17, 2023

is opposing an information request from consumers accusing Facebook parent company Meta Platforms of monopolizing social media markets, telling a California federal court the request is overbroad and irrelevant.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Investors in Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. hit the social media giant with a proposed securities class action Monday, saying recently leaked internal documents show the company knew its products were harmful to the mental health of young people but hid that from shareholders.

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Law 360

JANUARY 13, 2023

Artificial intelligence company Voyager Labs Ltd. is scraping Facebook users' data and selling it to its clients, including the Los Angeles Police Department, in violation of the social network's terms, Facebook's parent Meta Platforms Inc. said in a California federal court complaint Thursday.

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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

Circuit to support a contingent of state-level enforcers accusing Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., of monopolizing personal social networking services through acquisitions and developer restrictions on its platform. Department of Justice is requesting time during oral arguments at the D.C.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

asked a California federal judge on Monday to dismiss consolidated securities litigation accusing the Facebook parent of misleading investors about the harmful effects of its platforms on users and its efforts to curb detrimental content, saying the complaint relies on leaked company documents that often lack "meaningful context."

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Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A Dutch patent licensing company's legal crusade against yet another tech giant has come to an end in front of U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who flipped a favorable claim construction ruling the company won in Texas against Meta Platforms Inc. and torpedoed the lawsuit a few weeks ahead of a scheduled trial.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Circuit to revive their case accusing Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., Federal enforcers during oral argument later this month will get a chance to support a contingent of state attorneys general asking the D.C. of monopolizing personal social networking services.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

federal court judge on Tuesday denied a request from Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. for Federal Trade Commission documents related to reviews of the social media giant's acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the materials are protected by the deliberative-process privilege.

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Law 360

JUNE 24, 2022

Dozens of prominent companies, including Disney, Meta Platforms Inc. and Deutsche Bank, responded to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Friday overruling Roe v. Wade by saying they will cover employees' costs to travel to another state if needed to obtain a legal abortion.

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Law 360

MAY 17, 2022

Facebook's new parent company was slammed with a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court Tuesday by a job applicant who is a U.S. citizen and accuses Meta Platforms Inc. of not hiring him in favor of certain visa holders it could pay less.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Georgia's largest health care provider, Piedmont Healthcare Inc., is the latest to face a proposed class action over its use of an online activity tracking tool that allegedly steered people's personal information to Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook.

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. urged the D.C. Circuit on Monday to affirm the dismissal of a complaint from state enforcers accusing it of violating antitrust law, arguing that a lower court was right to toss allegations about conduct that ended years ago.

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Meta Platforms Inc. called out its government and private antitrust antagonists in separate court discovery filings Monday, criticizing the Federal Trade Commission for trying to guard sensitive material from the company's rivals even as the agency argues that the Facebook successor has "almost no competitors."

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Ireland's data protection regulator has slapped Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc. with a €17 million ($18.6 million) penalty after finding that the social media giant flouted the European Union's privacy law in connection with a series of data breach disclosures lodged in 2018.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2022

Plaintiff Purushothaman Rajaram Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit in a California US District Court against Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook’s new parent company for employment discrimination.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia has ruled that TikTok is immune from a lawsuit accusing it of causing the death of a 10-year-old girl by promoting a deadly “blackout challenge” that encouraged people to choke themselves on its video-based social media platform, reports Brendan Pierson for Reuters.

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Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2024

A California federal judge has refused to cut Meta Platforms Inc. and TikTok Inc.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

An activist investor's assertion that Meta Platforms Inc.

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Law 360

MARCH 1, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc.,

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A California federal judge Wednesday ruled that claims Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. improperly shut a news website out of advertisements and revenues should proceed, finding that at least some of the claims have to do with the company's promises to its advertisers rather than its role as a publisher.

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APRIL 27, 2022

The targeted firms include Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s s Google, Snap Inc., Twitter Inc. and Discord Inc. Law enforcement and the technology companies are still trying to assess the scope of the problem, which has become more prevalent in recent months.

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Last month, Meta, Inc. When Facebook, Inc. renamed itself Meta late last year, it heralded a pivot towards the “ metaverse.” Given its recent history, it is worth pondering whether Meta is really the right entity to be setting the ethical standards for virtual influencers and the metaverse more broadly.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Rohingya refugees in the US and UK on Monday filed a coordinated lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Facebook”) alleging the social media giant’s “inaction and support of hate speech, misinformation, and incitement of violence fostered the 10-year genocide of the Rohingya Muslims.”

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A concept from science fiction that many people in the technology industry envision as the successor to today’s internet, the metaverse is only a vision at this point, but technology companies like Facebook are aiming to make it the setting for many online activities, including work, play, studying and shopping. Facebook, Inc.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The metaverse is appearing more frequently in companies’ branding efforts, with companies like Nike launching an experience of its own within the Roblox metaverse, Balenciaga offering up products to wear in the Fortnite metaverse, and Tokens.com’s Metaverse Group subsidiary paid $2.4 Currently, Meta Platforms Inc.

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 3, 2022

Platforms will concentrate on privacy and content quality in feeds. With an eye on privacy and content quality, all major social media platforms will likely have updated their privacy policies and tweaked their algorithms by the end of 2022. Social Media: More Privacy, Quality and Algorithm Tweaks.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In response to the lawsuit, Volvo filed an unsuccessful motion to dismiss in August , arguing that Schroeder and Sumida are actually the ones who were in the wrong due to their use of the Volvo “brand, image, reputation and substantial social media reach of a venerable automotive company to promote themselves professionally.”

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Patently O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

courts have addressed the legality of non-expressive uses of copyrighted works in the context of other copy-reliant technologies, including software reverse engineering, [2] plagiarism detection software, [3] and the digitization of millions of library books to enable meta-analysis, text data mining, and search engine indexing. [4]

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