Facebook, Supreme Court

Supreme Court appears split in Facebook lawsuit tied to data breach
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided over whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a lawsuit accusing Meta’s Facebook of misleading investors about risks from a massive data privacy breach.
US Supreme Court mulls Facebook bid to escape securities fraud suit
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over a bid by Meta's Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the misuse of its user data.
Facebook Brings Bid to Dismiss Securites Fraud Suit to Supreme Court
Shareholders said the social media giant withheld details about not sharing information on a 2015 data breach involving Cambridge Analytica.
Facebook, Nvidia ask US Supreme Court to spare them from securities fraud suits
The Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases.
Facebook, Nvidia push SCOTUS to limit “nuisance” investor suits after scandals
One case involves one of the largest tech scandals of all time, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach. In 2019, Facebook agreed to pay "more than $5 billion in civil penalties to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had misled its users and investors over the privacy and security of user data on its platform,
Nvidia, Facebook Urge Supreme Court to Dismiss Investor Fraud Lawsuits
Nvidia and Facebook have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss securities fraud class action lawsuits against them. The tech giants argue that allowing these suits to proceed could significantly alter how

Meta, Facebook and South Korea

Why are people swapping profile photos with blacked-out posts on Facebook?
Across Facebook Wednesday profile pictures turned black as a protest over Tuesday's presidential election outcome. What is the history behind it.
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After his arrest for Facebook posts, a Cambodian reporter says he will become a farmer instead
It’s tough being a reporter in Cambodia, whose government frowns on independent journalism that questions authority.
Pregnant woman tried to sell baby on Facebook to ‘highest bidder’ and shook down adoptive parents: cops
A pregnant 21-year-old Texas woman tried to sell her unborn baby to the “highest bidder” and shook down would-be desperate adoptive parents for cash in the maternity ward, according to cops. Juniper ...
Woman puts her unborn baby up for sale on Facebook, Texas cops say. ‘Minimum of $150’
A Texas woman was arrested after officials say she tried to sell her unborn baby on Facebook. On Sept. 22, two days before ...
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Last Facebook Posts of Woman Who Jumped To Her Death From Niagara Falls With Children Are Haunting
The Niagara Falls community has been left in utter shock after officials say a mom of two jumped to her death from a popular ...
A Venezuelan mom asked for help in a Denver neighborhood Facebook group. Someone unexpected responded
So she posted in a Denver neighborhood Facebook group seeking any kind of help she could get. A private message landed in ...
Facebook Live outside of Mobile’s federal courthouse prompts witness-tampering charge
A relative of a Prichard man convicted in a murder-for-hire conspiracy pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a witness-tampering ...
Facebook parent Meta fired whistleblower after she criticized inflated, ‘out of thin air’ AI-revenue prediction, lawsuit claims
In late 2022, Facebook parent Meta saw ChatGPT go viral and went all in on developing its own version of generative ...