Overview

• Families of October 7 victims filed a class-action suit in Tel Aviv District Court on August 4 and 5, seeking nearly NIS 4 billion in damages.
• Plaintiffs allege Meta allowed live and recorded footage of the Hamas attack to remain on Facebook and Instagram and that its algorithms drove global dissemination of the videos.
• The Idan family from Kibbutz Nahal Oz is among the lead plaintiffs, highlighting the livestreamed murder of their daughter and the abduction of her father.
• The complaint underscores the lasting psychological trauma inflicted on involuntary viewers, particularly minors, by repeated exposure to graphic terror content.
• Meta invokes its policy proscribing Hamas and removing extremist content but has not made additional public comments as the case advances.