Facebook Hit With Negligence, Civil Rights Claims Over Wisconsin Protest Shootings

(September 25, 2020, 8:26 AM EDT) -- MILWAUKEE — Facebook Inc. breached its duties to remove militia groups' "violent rhetoric" from its online platform, a group of plaintiffs state in a Sept. 23 civil rights and negligence complaint filed in Wisconsin federal court, claiming that action by the social network "would have greatly aided in preventing the organization and popularization of the militias" and possibly even averted the shooting of three protesters by a militia member at an August Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Kenosha, Wis. (Hannah Gittings, et al. v. Kevin Mathewson, et al., No. 20-1483, E.D. Wis.)....

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