Hart
Hart v. Facebook, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
1 A. Parties 2 Hart is a resident of San Diego County, California. Compl. ¶ Intro 12. He is “the 3 Chief Data Analyst and founder of RationalGround.com, which helps companies, public 4 policy officials, and parents gauge the impact of COVID-19 across the country.” Id. Hart 5 has used Facebook since 2007 as a networking tool for his consulting business and for his 6 website. Id. ¶¶ 30–34. That same year, Hart joined Twitter, which he uses for the same 7 reasons and “as a feeder for his other social media accounts.” Id. ¶¶ 47, 48. 8 Facebook Inc. is a corporation with its principal place of business in California that 9 hosts “one of the most popular social media sites,” boasting “more than 2.8 billion monthly 10 users worldwide.” Id. ¶ 21. 11 Twitter Inc. is a corporation with its principal place of business in California that 12 runs a popular social media site used by “more than one in five adult Americans.” Id. ¶ 41. 13 Vivek Murthy is Surgeon General of the United States and “directs the office of the 14 Surgeon General.” Id. ¶ Intro 15. 15 Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is President of the United States and directs the federal 16 executive branch, including…