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> Facebook has facilitated, promoted, and editorialized content for the groups in an effort to maximize its advertising revenue and collect large quantities digital information about users for the purpose of commercial profit

It sounds like he's suing Facebook for being Facebook. Is that right?

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Well, there are two pieces. The first piece is establishing that 'the groups' were doing something wrong. The second piece is the usual struggle about the responsibility of big tech to police and moderate what goes on in the fora that they own and generate their income from. Attention is skewed toward the second question because big tech has the deep pockets, but both questions involve nontrivial moral issues.

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