Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties
2 months ago
- #Meta
- #child exploitation
- #legal ethics
- John Adams defended British soldiers in 1770, emphasizing lawyers' duties to client, court, and country.
- Meta's legal team has abandoned ethical duties, suppressing evidence of child exploitation and mental health harms.
- Meta's lawyers followed Big Tobacco's playbook, destroying documents and hiding research to protect profits over public welfare.
- Whistleblowers revealed Meta's VR platform harbored pedophile rings, with lawyers demanding evidence destruction.
- A judge ruled Meta's lawyers violated ethics by hiding research, invoking the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.
- Meta's legal misconduct reflects broader erosion of legal ethics, with bar associations failing to act.
- Accountability measures proposed include bar investigations, legislative reforms, and sanctions against unethical lawyers.
- The legal profession risks becoming a tool for the wealthy to exploit, undermining public trust in justice.