Plaintiffs In Meta Antitrust Suit Seek Documents From Data-Sharing Privacy Suit

Mealey's (May 18, 2022, 10:48 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a May 13 letter brief, a group of consumer plaintiffs who allege Sherman Act monopolization claims against Meta Platforms Inc. ask a California federal court to compel the operator of the Facebook social network to produce documents from the class action lawsuit over the 2015 Cambridge Analytica data-sharing incident, arguing that information about Meta’s misrepresentations over its privacy practices are relevant to their claims that the social network gained dominance, in part, through such misrepresentations....