Meta Argues Platform Not Responsible for Dating App’s Image Misuse
Facebook isn’t responsible for a dating app’s decision to use a woman's Facebook image for marketing purposes without consent, platform parent Meta argued Friday in docket 2:19-cv-04034. Philadelphia news anchor Karen Hepp sued Facebook in 2018 for running an ad…
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from the dating app FirstMet, which used her image without consent. The platform violated her right to publicity, Hepp claimed. Facebook was a “passive distributor” of the ad, and Hepp didn’t show the platform benefited from the use of her likeness, Meta argued in a filing with the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. The platform is immune from liability under the Pennsylvania Act as a "communications medium" without "actual knowledge," the platform said.