Civil Litigation
Facebook, Instagram pulling ads from lawyers looking for plaintiffs … to sue them
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg. (Photo by Daniel Constante/Shutterstock)
Meta Platforms said Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram looking to recruit plaintiffs for litigation accusing social media platforms of being addictive to young users, according to Reuters.
“We will not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a statement.
The move follows Meta’s loss in two trials over the allegations.
More than 3,300 lawsuits involving addiction claims are pending in California state court against Meta, Google, Snapchat parent Snap Inc. and ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, according to Reuters.
Firms such as Morgan & Morgan, which was part of the trial team that won the Los Angeles social addiction trial, are among those that placed ads on Facebook. A spokesperson for the firm didn’t respond to a request for comment from Reuters about the ads being pulled.
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