EQUIPThe Verge · 2h ago
Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures
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Meta faces allegations of broadly misapplying attorney-client privilege to withhold evidence in lawsuits regarding teen safety and mental health. Recently unsealed documents suggest employees actively sought to shield communications from discovery through internal labeling strategies.
- 01Plaintiffs claim Meta misused legal privilege labels to prevent public disclosure of sensitive safety documents
- 02Unsealed evidence reveals internal efforts to categorize non-legal communications as privileged to avoid discovery
- 03The ongoing litigation focuses on alleged harms to youth mental health across Meta social platforms
- 04Courts are scrutinizing the validity of privilege claims applied to internal company correspondence
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Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document […]