Facebook Sued for $1b for Alleged Use of Medium for Terror
Gwen Ackerman
GwenSahar
July 11, 2016 — 8:43 AM EDT
Updated on July 11, 2016 — 9:18 AM EDT
Damages sought for families of 5 American victims of attacks
Facebook says it doesn’t comment to press on legal proceedings
Lawyers filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Facebook Inc., alleging it allowed the Palestinian militant Hamas group to use it as a medium to carry out attacks that killed four Americans and wounded one in Israel, the West Bank and Jerusalem.
“Facebook has knowingly provided material support and resources to Hamas in the form of Facebook’s online social network platform and communication services,” making it liable for the violence against the five Americans, according to the lawsuit sent to Bloomberg by the office of the Israeli lawyer on the case, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
“Simply put, Hamas uses Facebook as a tool for engaging in terrorism,” it said.
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