ABA Journal, Stanford Law Prof Fires Meta as Client, Citing Platform’s ‘Descent into Toxic Masculinity’:
A professor at Stanford Law School announced on LinkedIn on Monday that he could no longer “in good conscience” represent Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
Mark Lemley, the William H. Neukom professor of law at Stanford Law and director of its Program in Law, Science and Technology, said in his social media post he has “struggled with how to respond to [CEO] Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness.”
Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina who was representing Meta in a copyright dispute in the Northern District of California, said he fired the company as a client. The case, Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, involves allegations that Meta trained its artificial intelligence product using the copyrighted works of several authors.
