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Class action accuses Paramount of 3rd-party data sharing

A lawsuit seeking $5 million or more in damages claims Paramount illegally shared data of its Paramount+ users with third-party apps like Facebook and TikTok without consent.

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Brazil Institute wants $525M from Meta, TikTok & Kwai for harms to minors

November 5, 2024

Just months after Musk’s X was banned (though now reinstated) in Brazil for social media overreach, the country’s Collective Defense Institute filed two lawsuits against Brazilian divisions of TikTok, Kwai (a social video site) and Meta. The group is seeking 3 billion reais (US$525.27 million) claiming the companies harm minors by encouraging platform addiction.

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Meta Faces Class Action for Overcharging Facebook Advertisers

April 17, 2025

Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another.  Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.

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