NEW YORK POST
Israeli suit claims Facebook failed to monitor ‘terror’ activities
by Emily Saul
October 26, 2015
Facebook just got 20,000 unlikes from Israelis who are suing the social network for not cracking down on “Palestinian terror” activities online. Among the litigants is a US-born man who was critically wounded this month in a Jerusalem terror attack. Richard Lakin, a Boston native and former New Jersey school principal now living in Israel, was shot and stabbed on Oct. 13 when militants boarded a bus, killing two people and critically wounding 20 [Lakin has since died]. He is one of the 20,000 people on whose behalf lawyers Robert Tolchin and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the director of the Israel Law Center (ILC), filed suit against Facebook in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday. READ MORE