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A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed
A new lawsuit argues US law requires Meta to give users more control over their Facebook feeds. The outcome could reshape how the platform’s algorithm affects our lives.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday against Meta argues that US law requires the company to let people use unofficial add-ons to gain more control over their social feeds. In 2020, the company argued that the browser Friendly, which had let users search and reorder their Facebook news feeds as well as block ads and trackers, violated its terms of service and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Sophia Cope, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, says that the core parts of Section 230 related to platforms’ liability for content posted by users have been clarified through potentially thousands of cases.
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