Massachusetts v. Meta

On November 14, 2025, WLF urged the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to reverse a lower court decision allowing the Commonwealth’s consumer-protection and tort case against Meta to proceed. The lower court 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.” WLF’s amicus brief explained that both section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment require the case against Meta for merely publishing others’ speech to be dismissed.