#Legal Accountability

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Articles (30)

🇺🇸 Court allows Meta youth addiction lawsuit to proceed in Massachusetts — 10/04/2026 [USA]
A Massachusetts high court ruled Friday that the state attorney general's social media addiction case against Meta Platforms can move forward. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled the case c...
Related: #Tech Regulation, #Youth Mental Health
🇺🇸 DC pipe bomb suspect not covered by Trump Jan. 6 pardon: DOJ — 10/04/2026 [USA]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking a judge to deny a motion of dismissal made by the man suspected of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on the eve of Jan. 6, 2021, after the defendan...
Related: #Presidential Pardons, #January 6 Aftermath
🇺🇸 Oversight Democrats call for Melania Trump to testify on Epstein — 10/04/2026 [USA]
A group of Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling on first lady Melania Trump to testify before Congress as part of their probe into the crimes of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstei...
Related: #Political Oversight, #Executive Family, #Partisan Conflict
🇺🇸 Democrats in US slam Pam Bondi for refusing to appear for Epstein hearing — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Lawmakers warn the former Justice Department chief that a congressional subpoena for her testimony remains in effect.
Related: #Congressional Oversight, #Political Conflict
🇺🇸 What Happens Inside Israel’s Detention System — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Human rights groups, UN investigators and Israeli legal organisations say torture of Palestinians is part of a wider sy
Related: #Human Rights, #Military Conflict
🇺🇸 Matthew Perry's family reacts to "Ketamine Queen" sentencing — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Jasveen Sangha, the woman described as the "Ketamine Queen," was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for her role in the death of "Friends" co-star Matthew Perry. Carter Evans reports.
Related: #Celebrity Death, #Drug Trafficking
🇺🇸 Martin Gugino, Activist Shoved by Buffalo Police at 2020 Protest, Dies — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Mr. Gugino, 81, had filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the city of Buffalo and members of its police force after officers fractured his skull at a Black Lives Matter protest.
Related: #Police Brutality, #Civil Rights
🇺🇸 Michael Avenatti, who stole from Stormy Daniels, released from prison — 08/04/2026 [USA]
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in her unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, has been released from federal prison after serving f...
Related: #Political Drama, #Celebrity Justice
🇺🇸 Wisconsin mayor who removed ballot drop box ahead of 2024 elections won't be charged — 08/04/2026 [USA]
A Wisconsin mayor who carted away a drop box intended for absentee ballots before any votes were cast in the 2024 election won't face any charges, a special prosecutor announced Wednesday.
Related: #Election Integrity, #Local Politics
🇺🇸 Bondi won't testify next week in House Epstein probe; lawmakers push to reschedule — 08/04/2026 [USA]
The Justice Department has told the House Oversight Committee that now-former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not appear before the committee next week to answer questions about the department’s handl...
Related: #Government Oversight, #Judicial Reform
🇺🇸 Supreme Court clears the way for Bannon contempt case to be dismissed — 06/04/2026 [USA]
Bannon spent four months in prison after defying a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Related: #Congressional Oversight
🇺🇸 Meta’s court losses could be just the beginning — 27/03/2026 [USA]
Social media companies have long seemed impervious to legal threats. Meta, YouTube, Snap, and the rest have long waved off criticism of their platforms on free speech and Section 230 grounds. But twic...
Related: #Platform Design
🇺🇸 Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million — 25/03/2026 [USA]
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
Related: #Political Investigations, #Executive Power
🇺🇸 The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know — 25/03/2026 [USA]
Landmark trials are testing a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products.
Related: #Technology Ethics, #Mental Health
🇺🇸 Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial — 25/03/2026 [USA]
The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of...
Related: #Social Media Addiction
🇺🇸 New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law — 24/03/2026 [USA]
The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violatio...
Related: #Child Safety
🇺🇸 Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides — 24/03/2026 [USA]
Meta willfully violated New Mexico law by misleading users about the safety of its products and engaging in an unconscionable trade practice, a jury found. The company will face a $375 million penalty...
Related: #Consumer Protection
🇺🇸 Meta’s reckoning over kids safety is in the hands of two juries — 24/03/2026 [USA]
Two juries are currently deliberating a series of cases that could either usher in a legal reckoning for Meta, or maintain the status quo in an uphill battle to impose changes or penalties on tech pla...
Related: #Tech Regulation
🇺🇸 Woman Who Says Bill Cosby Drugged and Raped Her in 1972 Wins $19.3 Million Jury Award — 23/03/2026 [USA]
Former California waitress Donna Motsinger, now 84, says Cosby gave her two round white pills that caused her to lose consciousness before he raped her
Related: #Sexual Assault
🇬🇧 Ex-teacher accused of Edinburgh school abuse found guilty of sex attack in South Africa — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
A court in Cape Town found Iain Wares guilty of indecently assaulting a former student who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s.
Related: #Sexual Abuse
🇺🇸 Landmark trial in New Mexico to decide whether Meta misled users about children's safety risks — 23/03/2026 [USA]
Closing arguments are scheduled in a landmark trial where New Mexico prosecutors are accusing social media conglomerate Meta of misleading people about the safety of its platforms for children
Related: #Child Safety
🇺🇸 Allegations against ICC war crimes prosecutor still under review despite report he was cleared — 22/03/2026 [USA] Related: #International Justice
🇺🇸 ICC Chief Prosecutor Khan cleared of sexual misconduct by judges: Report — 21/03/2026 [USA]
Karim Khan has denied the allegations and took voluntary leave from his position in May.
Related: #International Justice
🇺🇸 Elon Musk Misled Twitter Investors Ahead of His $44 Billion Takeover in 2022, Jury Finds — 21/03/2026 [USA]
Elon Musk artificially drove down the price of Twitter’s stock in 2022 with tweets claiming the social-media company had underreported how many fake and spam accounts were on its platform, a federal j...
Related: #Corporate Fraud
🇬🇧 Musk responsible for Twitter investors’ stock dropping when he bought company, jury rules — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
California jurors hand win to investors who sued billionaire saying he publicly disparaged social media platform in 2022A California jury has ruled that Elon Musk is responsible for Twitter ...
Related: #Financial Markets
🇺🇸 Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says — 20/03/2026 [USA]
Elon Musk was sued in late 2022 after completing his acquisition of Twitter, which he later renamed X.
Related: #Corporate Acquisition
🇺🇸 Musk defrauded Twitter investors during buyout, jury finds — 20/03/2026 [USA]
Panel members conclude the billionaire misled shareholders in tweets posted during the $44bn takeover
Related: #Corporate Fraud
🇬🇧 Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter takeover, US jury finds — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
A US jury has found Elon Musk misled investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's share price in the months leading up to his $44bn (£33bn) takeover of the social media company.
Related: #Corporate Governance
🇺🇸 Elon Musk Is Responsible for Some Twitter Investor Losses, Jury Finds — 20/03/2026 [USA]
Investors had sued Mr. Musk, claiming the billionaire tried to drive down the share price of the social media company, now called X, to renegotiate his $44 billion offer.
Related: #Corporate Acquisition
🇺🇦 Ex-Zelensky's party lawmaker sentenced to jail in bribery case — 19/03/2026 [Ukraine]
Marchenko was charged in 2023 with receiving an $11,300 bribe for allegedly influencing regional officials to allow men eligible for military service to go abroad. She was expelled from Zelensky's Ser...
Related: #Corruption