{"id":156400,"date":"2022-07-29T03:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=156400"},"modified":"2022-07-29T03:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:38:56","slug":"ohio-picked-to-lead-class-action-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/29\/ohio-picked-to-lead-class-action-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio picked to lead class-action lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS — A federal judge in California has agreed to consolidate a series of lawsuits against Facebook and appointed Ohio as the lead plaintiff in the securities class-action case against the social-media giant. Attorney General Yost will lead the class action on behalf of Ohio and any other affected investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision in U.S. District Court of Northern California means that Yost\u2019s office \u2013 representing the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and Facebook investors \u2013 will lead the effort to recover millions of dollars in losses and to compel Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook, to reform its internal practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dave Yost<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“This case is about lies and losses \u2013 Facebook’s lies, and the losses incurred by our pension systems and others,” Yost said. “Ohio is happy and determined to lead in enforcing accountability against Facebook.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio, which filed its motion to serve as lead plaintiff jointly with PFA Pension of Denmark, was chosen over the California Public Employees Retirement System, which also petitioned to serve as lead plaintiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOhio PERS and PFA Pension are the presumptive lead plaintiff by virtue of having the largest financial interest,\u201d Judge Jon S. Tigar wrote in his ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its lawsuit against Facebook, Ohio maintains that the company, now called Meta, misled the public about how its proprietary algorithm promoted offensive and dangerous content to users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio\u2019s complaint contends that, from April 21 through October 21 of last year, Facebook and its senior executives violated federal securities laws by purposely misleading the public about the negative effects its products have on the health and well-being of children and the steps the company has taken to protect the public. Those misrepresentations boosted the price of Facebook stock, harming investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scheme was revealed in September in the Wall Street Journal and, the next month, a former Facebook employee provided internal documents and statements underscoring how the company \u201cchooses profit over safety.\u201d
These revelations caused Facebook\u2019s stock to plummet, causing around $3 million in losses to OPERS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The magic of free markets doesn’t happen if the marketplace is filled with false information,” Yost said. “Markets, including the stock market, are the most efficient means of allocating capital. But the rational, free flow of capital by millions of individual decisions is distorted by false information \u2013 especially deliberately false information. This lawsuit will serve to protect investors and the market as a whole.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a recovery is obtained in the class action suit, other retirement systems and Facebook investors can file claims to participate in the recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS — A federal judge in California has agreed to consolidate a series of lawsuits against Facebook and appointed Ohio as the lead plaintiff in the securities class-action case against the social-media giant. Attorney General Yost will lead the class action on behalf of Ohio and any other affected investors. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:28:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156404,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156400\/revisions\/156404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}