Meta Faces Unprecedented Legal Onslaught: What Happens Next Could Shake the Tech Giant to Its Core!
TikTok and Snap, Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, sagely recognized the inherent limitations of liability afforded under Section 230 and, at least implicitly, acknowledged that the algorithms employed by big tech internet platforms could, in fact, be a product defect and give rise to civil liability. They settled before trial. Meta and Alphabet, Inc., the parent company of Google and YouTube, did not.
Meta rolled the dice and they lost the game. Moreover, it went so far as to seek judicial determination as to whether or not its liability insurance carriers would be forced to pay for impending mountainous verdicts. A Delaware Court denied coverage under Meta’s Commercial General Liabilities Coverage (CGL). “Meta’s intentional platform design choices precluded the alleged harms from qualifying as an ‘accident…’”
