Mark Lemley said he could not “in good conscience” represent Mark Zuckerberg given recent decisions to "encourage disinformation and hate speech" on his company's platforms. A suit pending in Northern California alleges Meta infringed the copyrights of several authors by using their works to train its generative AI program.

A US lawyer representing Meta has publicly announced that he has “fired” the company as a client, citing “Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness”.

Lawyer Mark Lemley said he's firing Meta as a client over Mark Zuckerberg's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness"

Mark Lemley, a Stanford law professor and seasoned attorney, has publicly cut ties with Meta, citing concerns about CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership direction.

A lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.” The move comes as employees and associates of the social media company grapple with their founder’s apparent attempts to pivot rightward before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.

Stanford law professor Mark Lemley represented Meta in a 2023 copyright case in which the company used a data set containing copyrighted e-books to train its

Mark Lemley, a lawyer representing Meta in an intellectual property lawsuit said that he has dropped Meta as a client over Mark Zuckerberg's decision to scrap fact-checking on his social media platforms.