Mark Zuckerberg · Google · Meta · The Guardian Technology
A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google, and landed
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When Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom on 18 February flanked by an entourage bedecked in Meta Ray-Bans, some people laughed.
Key facts
- In 2018, he won $4.69bn (reduced on appeal to $2.12bn ) for 22 women with ovarian cancer and their families after Johnson & Johnson failed to warn them of the carcinogenic risk associated
- The jury had found Google and Meta liable on all counts and had awarded Kaley $6m: $3m in compensatory damages and an extra $3m in punitive damages, because Meta and Google were found to have “acted
- When Mark Zuckerberg walked into a Los Angeles courtroom on 18 February flanked by an entourage bedecked in Meta Ray-Bans, some people laughed
- The reporter meet Lanier in Yarnton Manor, a grade II-listed estate in Oxfordshire, built in 1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer, a distant ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales
Summary
This was a serious trial. But there were specific reasons why the prosecution was deeply disturbed to see Meta Ray-Bans in court. “Then Zuckerberg shows up with security guards wearing Meta glasses. The prosecution appealed to the judge, pointing out that Zuckerberg’s entourage was breaking rules that forbade cameras in the courtroom. The case of KGM v Meta et al was always going to be as hi-tech as it was high stakes.