Legal ruling: Facebook ‘friends’ aren’t necessarily real friends


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 31 Aug 2017

MISS CALL ME: The Internet social networking company is testing a new type of ad in the country that allows mobile phone users to click a button that calls a brand advertiser, immediately hangs up and then receives a return call. — Reuters

MIAMI: Facebook "friends" aren't always real friends – at least legally. 

That was the finding Wednesday of an appeals court on a specific Facebook-related legal question: whether a Miami judge needed to recuse herself because one of the attorneys involved in a case in her court is a Facebook "friend." 

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