From Mary Bauer <[email protected]>
Subject We just sued Facebook.
Date April 8, 2021 4:30 PM
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Dear Friend,
Today, we’re suing Facebook.
For years, we have warned Facebook about the barrage of anti-Muslim hate and violent threats that proliferate on their platform — and violate the company’s own policies. Facebook executives repeatedly testify before Congress and reassure consumers that they remove content that violates their community standards or other policies and practices. But they don’t.
As you’ll see in this must-watch video on Twitter [[link removed]] , Facebook [[link removed]] or Instagram [[link removed]] , Facebook executives are lying. And that’s illegal.
Muslim Advocates and others have continually flagged hate speech and hate groups that should violate Facebook’s policies, yet remain on the platform. This is not only a grave social problem, as we’ve outlined in our scathing report Complicit: The Human Cost of Facebook’s Disregard for Muslim Life [[link removed]] , it is also a legal problem.
On April 11, 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized [[link removed]] to the House Energy and Commerce Committee that “We do not allow hate groups on Facebook overall. So, if there is a group that their primary purpose or a large part of what they do is spreading hate, we will ban them from the platform overall.” That same year, Dr. Megan Squire, a professor at Elon University, published [[link removed]] a paper identifying 201 anti-Muslim hate groups in the U.S. that still had group pages on Facebook.
By repeatedly misrepresenting that Facebook takes down prohibited content when the company constantly fails to do so, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and other top Facebook executives violate the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act. That’s why we just filed a lawsuit [[link removed]] in D.C. Superior Court with Gupta Wessler PLLC and law professor Aziz Huq.
This lawsuit represents all of us who seek to hold Facebook accountable for the harm and hate they have unleashed. The company must stop lying and start fixing its platform.
This is your lawsuit, too. It won’t be easy. With an annual budget of over $80 billion, Facebook has the resources to put up a serious legal fight.
But we’re ready.
Mary Bauer
Legal Director
Muslim Advocates

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