Massachusetts v. Meta

On April 10, 2026, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lower court decision allowing the Commonwealth’s consumer-protection and tort case against Meta to proceed. The lower court had determined that Instagram’s high use by young people sufficed to allow the case to go forward—including under a theory that Instagram was a “public nuisance.” The outcome was a setback for WLF, which had argued as amicus that since Massachusetts’s case focused on Meta’s publication of others’ speech, both section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment required the case to be dismissed.