News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 6, 2021
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a brief urging the Superior Court of the District of Columbia not to grant technology platforms sweeping immunity from local consumer protection law, and to allow a private lawsuit challenging Facebook’s deceptive claims about its content moderation practices to move forward.
In an amicus brief filed in Muslim Advocates v. Facebook, a case concerning the tech platform’s misrepresentations about removing hate speech from its platform, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) urges the court to reject Facebook’s efforts to get the case dismissed. The District’s brief asserts that no company is entitled to mislead consumers about its goods and services, and that consumer protection laws apply to online companies that do not charge monetary fees in the same way they apply to all other businesses. The brief also pushes back on Facebook’s erroneous argument that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields tech platforms from accountability for their own misrepresentations to consumers.
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