Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook) Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court against Social Data Trading Ltd, a Hong Kong-based social media analytics company, for allegedly scrapping account profiles of more than 91 million Instagram users and selling the scraped data as “demographics and insights about influencers and their audiences.” The social media giant accused [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday announced the extradition of a Russian national, Vladislav Klyushin, to the US from Switzerland to face charges in a multimillion-dollar scheme to trade on non-public, insider information stolen from US computer networks. The authorities have charged four other Russian nationals in the scheme who have not yet been [...]
Judge Amit Mehta of the District Court of the District of Columbia on Monday denied a motion to dismiss charges against 17 defendants accused of conspiring to disrupt an official proceeding of Congress during the January 6 Capitol riots. The 17 involved in this particular proceeding are all members or affiliates of the group called [...]
Ukrainian authorities Monday placed former president Petro Poroshenko under formal investigation for high treason. Poroshenko is accused of facilitating the financing of separatist forces in eastern Ukraine. Poroshenko served as Ukraine’s fifth president from 2014 to 2019. During that time, a conflict between Russian-backed separatist forces and Ukraine broke out in the Donbas region in [...]
The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) Monday filed a class action lawsuit against the Biden administration over alleged US officials’ abuse of asylum-seeking Haitians. According to the lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security violated thousands of Haitian asylum seekers’ rights. The suit claimed the plaintiffs fled danger and instability in Haiti, seeking asylum in the US. [...]
Meta Platforms (previously Facebook) Monday filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in California against unknown defendants operating more than 39,000 websites impersonating the login pages of Meta’s services like Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp to deceive users and steal their login credentials. In its filings, Meta claims that since 2019 the bad actors used [...]
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Monday rejected an appeal by 66-year-old former Serb fighter Radomir Šušnjar of his conviction and 20-year sentence for committing war crimes 29 years ago during the Bosnian War, which resulted in dozens of civilian deaths. Deciding against his appeal, the Constitutional Court found that Šušnjar’s right to [...]
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced activist Alaa Abd El Fattah to five years in prison after he was tried on charges of “spreading false news undermining national security.” Alongside Abd El Fattah, the New Cairo Emergency State Security Misdemeanour Court also sentenced human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer and blogger Mohammed Ibrahim “Oxygen” to four years each [...]
Devlyn Thompson of Seattle, Washington was sentenced Monday by a federal district court in Washington, DC for assaulting a police officer in a tunnel during the January 6 breach of the US Capitol. District Court Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth sentenced Thompson to 46 months in prison. Thompson pleaded guilty on August 6 to assaulting, [...]
Former President Donald Trump sued New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, seeking to block a long-running civil fraud investigation into his business practices and to bar a criminal investigation. The complaint was filed in the Northern District of New York after it was reported that James’s office would seek to question Trump as [...]
