{"id":171523,"date":"2016-07-12T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T07:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171523"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T07:47:36","slug":"facebook-sued-for-1-billion-for-being-a-terrorist-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/171523-facebook-sued-for-1-billion-for-being-a-terrorist-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook sued for $1 billion for being a &#8220;terrorist tool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers have filed a $1-billion lawsuit against Facebook, saying\u00a0it was used as a tool for engaging in terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-11\/facebook-sued-for-1b-for-alleged-hamas-use-of-medium-for-terror\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bloomberg reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the lawsuit alleges that Facebook \u201callowed the Palestinian militant Hamas group to use the platform to plot attacks that killed four Americans and wounded one in Israel, the West Bank, and Jerusalem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook has knowingly provided material support and resources to Hamas in the form of Facebook\u2019s online social network platform and communication services,\u201d lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>This, said Darshan-Leitner, makes Facebook liable for the violence.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Facebook news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/169253-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-puts-tape-over-his-laptop-camera.html\"><strong>Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg puts tape over his laptop camera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/169085-man-pleads-guilty-to-harassing-women-on-facebook.html\"><strong>Man pleads guilty to harassing women on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/168773-twitter-facebook-and-google-sued-for-terrorist-attacks.html\"><strong>Twitter, Facebook, and Google sued for terrorist attacks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers have filed a $1-billion lawsuit against Facebook, saying it was used as a tool for engaging in terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161],"class_list":["post-171523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171591,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171523\/revisions\/171591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}