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Facebook Claims It Can Use Kids’ ‘Likes’ As it Likes, Wants Class Action Tossed

Posted on August 8, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Joe Harris reports:

Facebook asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action accusing it of exploiting children, claiming that Facebook users’ “like” statements qualify as matters of public interest.

“Expressions of consumer opinion, such as the plaintiffs’ Like statements challenged here, have repeatedly qualified as matters of public interest under the First Amendment,” Facebook claimed in a motion seeking “more definite statement or dismissal.”

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