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Facebook Harm Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: Plaintiff Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. f/k/a Facebook, Inc.
- Why: The plaintiff alleges the company knowingly exploited children to drive corporate profits.
- Where: The lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
Facebook, recently renamed “Meta,” faces more legal action, this time a lawsuit filed by Ohio Attorney General David Yost on behalf of the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System.
The suit, like many others, claims Facebook engaged in an egregious breach of public trust by knowingly exploiting its most vulnerable users—children—to drive corporate profits, a new lawsuit claims.
Facebook repeatedly misrepresented to investors and the public that its products do not harm children, that the company takes aggressive and effective measures to stop the spread of harmful content and that it applies its standards of behavior equally to all users, the lawsuit states.
However, Facebook investors recently learned the truth when Frances Haugen, former Facebook employee turned whistleblower, came forward with internal documents showing that the defendants were aware that Facebook’s platforms facilitate dissention, illegal activity and violent extremism and cause significant harm to users, especially children, but Facebook refused to correct these issues.
The Ohio AG’s office filed a similar suit in October, but it stated “an incorrect time period in which the harm by Facebook’s actions occurred.”
Facebook Facing Mounting Litigation
Also in October, Facebook was hit with allegations that it harmed investors by filing misleading annual financial reports with the Securities Exchange Commission and making false statements about its internal operations.
In recent months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “deep involvement” with the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal also prompted a Washington DC Attorney General to add him as a defendant in a pending lawsuit.
Have you or someone you know been harmed by Facebook? We want to hear from you! Tell us about your experience in the comment section below!
The plaintiffs are represented by Jonathan D. Uslaner, Hannah Ross, Avi Josefson and Scott R. Foglietta of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP and Shawn Busken of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Ohio.
The Facebook Harm Lawsuit is Ohio Public Employees Retirement System v. Meta Platforms, Inc., Case No. 3:21-cv-08812, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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My Grandsons were and still are addicted to face book and all that went on to the point that they are liars, feel entitled, lazy, won’t get jobs, act stupid and a major pain in society’s behind. Add my name to the list.
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I and all other FB users were engineered to use this platform with these platforms open widely allowing any and all things to be posted n engaged until they, FB, began quickly removing ppl at a distance with next to none explanations or even given a true appeal to be heard and the confiscate and hold ur page hostage and kill you by removing you and keeping ur info and misusing it as this world is finally realizing…. I’ve had this happen to both my INSTA AND FB accounts
My daughter is suffering. She is 19, 104 lbs, AND HAS TRIED SUICIDE 3 times. She is scrolling Instagram and Meta 24/7. I have shut her phone down and it’s worse. WE NEED HELP… please
I feel your pain!! So sorry this is happening to you and her!! It is evil and very addictive. I have a 15 year old that I am constantly arguing with over social media! How I wish we could return to the time before internet! Internet especially social media has ruined the human race!???
I am an online queer activist, and abolitoinist. i have a degree in criminology and a knack for spotting trafickers online. i speak out when i see them and report it, to no avail. not only do these thing not violate community standards, but facebook routinely locks me out of my accounts for it. I have lost critical legal documents as well as irreplacable family photos. i can not access or use the marketplace. from what i can discern, facebook is deliberately facilitating the trafficking of humans, and targeting marginilized groups with phishing and hacking. Shut. It. Down.