Facebook Asks Court to Dismiss Image Misuse Lawsuit

A lawsuit claiming Facebook benefited from a user’s image without consent fails to allege the platform had editorial discretion in the third-party advertisement in question, Meta argued Friday in docket 2:19-cv-04034 (see 2203070067). Philadelphia news anchor Karen Hepp sued Facebook in 2018 for running an ad from the dating app FirstMet, which used her image without consent. The U.S. District Court in Philadelphia should dismiss her lawsuit because she doesn’t have a “plausible claim” the platform used her image for commercial or advertising purposes, Meta argued. The case has implications for Communications Decency Act Section 230 (see 2203250048).