Facebook is the target of a new lawsuit from the sister of a slain federal officer who claims the tech giant’s algorithms and drive for revenue played an active role encouraging her brother’s alleged killers.
The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in California state court Thursday by Angela Underwood Jacobs, the sister of David Patrick Underwood, a federal protective services officer who was shot and killed outside a federal building in Oakland, California, in May 2020.
The lawsuit claims that the shooting by an alleged member of the Boogaloo extremist movement was “not a random act of violence,” but instead, “the culmination of an extremist plot hatched and planned on Facebook by two men.” Continue Reading
(SOURCE) https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/politics/facebook-lawsuit-slain-officer/index.html
