SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Christopher Calise and Anastasia Groschen filed a federal class action complaint on August 11 in the Northern District of California against Facebook, Inc. for negligence, breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
According to the complaint, Christopher Calise and Anastasia Groschen have filed the class action complaint to put an end to Facebook’s policy of actively soliciting, encouraging, and assisting scammers it knows, or should know, use its platform to defraud users with deceptive ads, and compel Facebook to either compensate users for their losses or disgorge the billions of dollars in profits it has unjustly earned from misconduct.
Facebook collects large amounts of data from each Facebook user. While Facebook does not pay users for it, this data has enormous financial value and enables Facebook to sell precisely targeted ads to millions of advertisers, the suit says. Scammers discovered they could exploit these targeting capabilities to get deceptive, false and/or misleading ads viewed by the Facebook users most likely to click those ads and be lured into bait-and-switch and other fraudulent schemes, the suit says.
Christopher Calise and Anastasia Groschen seek an award of declaratory and injunctive relief, including but not limited to, the Proposed Injunctive Relief; awarding them and other members of the action monetary compensation, attorney's fees and cost of suit. Christopher Calise and Anastasia Groschen are represented by Adam M. Apton.
U.S. District Court Northern District of California case number 4:21-cv-06186-KAW