Researcher’s ‘unfollow everything’ lawsuit against Meta gets dismissed

A lawsuit from a researcher who tried to develop a browser extension for Facebook called “Unfollow Everything 2.0″ has been dismissed for now, The New York Times reported. Ethan Zuckerman from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University attempted to use the Section 230 tech shield law in a novel way to force Meta to allow him to develop the tool that would wipe a Facebook user’s feed clean.

For background, Zuckerman was inspired by a 2021 project called “Unfollow Everything” that

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