Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook. He recently accused the tech giant of invading his privacy by publishing false claims about his health, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, Meta published a video and motion images on Facebook under the page “AfriCare Health Centre,” falsely claiming that he has been battling prostatitis for over 16 years, and they needed calling out for it.
He added that the clip painted him a false light, and as such is an invasion of my privacy.
The alleged statement in the video read, “My name is Femi Falana, and I have been battling prostatitis for over 16 years. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed with this condition. Every day I faced pain, discomfort, and constant fatigue. I had trouble urinating, lower back pain, and other symptoms that made it difficult to live a full life. Despite consulting the best urologists in the country, no one could offer me effective treatment. I was prescribed numerous medications, physical therapy, even surgery, but the problem was that these methods only temporarily relieved the symptoms.”
Reacting, he wrote, “For their failure to verify the page and video before publishing, I believe the Respondent’s publicity of my name and image in a false light was done carelessly and recklessly to draw traffic to the Respondent’s platform to boost its advertisement revenues.
The video is reckless, insensitive, disturbing, and an unjustifiable intrusion into my privacy. I find the Respondent’s use of my name and image highly offensive and emotionally disturbing. This continues to cause me anxiety, sadness, and exposure to ridicule.”
WOW.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman. He co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.
Zuckerberg has been the subject of multiple lawsuits regarding the creation and ownership of the website as well as issues of user privacy.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York to psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg.
He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi, and Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
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