Mann
Mann v. Meta Platforms Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 GERALD MANN, Case No. 24-cv-09348-DMR
Plaintiff,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE:
v. DISMISSAL
META PLATFORMS INC., Defendant.
Self-represented Plaintiff Gerald Mann filed a complaint and an application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). [Docket Nos. 1, 3.] The complaint alleges claims for breach of contract and professional negligence against Defendant Meta Platforms Inc. (“Meta”) related to Mann’s exposure to certain content on Facebook. Mann alleges that, while scrolling on the Facebook App, he “was sent multiple invites to join a Chrystal Meth Club, and a Chrystal Meth Whore Club,” which depicted pictures “of meth pipes and actual methamphetamines bags,” and also included “[e]xtremely disturbing” imagery suggesting “illegal business” having to do with a “shady looking drug dealer/ pimp type figure hiding in the background[.]” [Docket No. 1 (“Compl.”) ¶ 6; see also id. at 5 (“[F]acebook then bagan…