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  • Meta Faces Trial in October 2025 on Unfair Competition Case

    Meta Platforms (META.O), the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, will face trial in Spain in October 2025 over a €551 million ($582 million) lawsuit filed by more than 80 media companies. A Madrid court announced on Friday that hearings will take place on October 1 and 2. The AMI media association, representing 87…

  • Meta Beats Lawsuit Over Race-Based Hiring Program For Commercial

    A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a white electrician, James Harker, accusing Meta Platforms of facilitating racial bias. Harker alleged that Meta tapped a production company, Something Ideal, which participated in a diversity hiring program, to film a commercial, thereby discriminating against him. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, in her written…

  • Meta Agrees To Pay $1.4 Billion To Settle Texas Biometric Privacy Lawsuit

    In a landmark legal resolution, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement over allegations of violating state privacy laws. The lawsuit, filed in February 2022, accused Meta of unlawfully collecting biometric data to train its facial recognition technology, a practice…

  • Families Of Uvalde School Shooting Victims Sue Meta, Microsoft, Gunmaker

    On Friday, families of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting filed two lawsuits against Instagram’s parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft, and the gunmaker Daniel Defense. They claim these companies cooperated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens, including the Uvalde shooter. The wrongful death complaints argue that…

  • RFK Jr And Super PAC Sue Meta, Claiming Election Interference

    Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, along with a super PAC supporting him, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O), alleging interference in the election after the tech giant blocked a political advertisement. Kennedy and the American Values 2024 super PAC, which funded the advertisement—a 30-minute video about Kennedy’s…

  • Judge Dismisses Claims Against Zuckerberg Over Social Media Harm

    On Monday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, dismissed some claims in twelve lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg, alleging he concealed the harmful effects of Facebook and Instagram on children. These lawsuits are part of a broader litigation involving numerous children who are suing Meta and other social media companies, claiming addiction to…

  • Court Says Meta Cannot Delay US FTC From Reopening Privacy Probe

    The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Meta Platforms cannot delay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from reopening an investigation into alleged privacy failures by its Facebook unit, despite Meta’s pursuit of a lawsuit challenging the agency’s authority. The ruling, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for…