The plaintiff shared on Facebook a story of controversial content and doubtful veracity about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Peruvian judge admitted this Wednesday a lawsuit by a lawyer against the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who claims compensation of $ 300,000 for having suspended his account on this social network for 30 days after spreading unconfirmed information about the covid- 19.
Judge Lila Fuentes, of the Fourth Civil Court of the Superior Court of Justice of Piura, northern region of Peru, summoned the plaintiff lawyer Juan Mejía and Zuckerberg for a hearing by teleconference to be held on June 17, 2022 through the platform Google Meet, direct competition from Facebook.
Mejía maintains in his claim that his right to freedom of expression was violated when Facebook left him unable to interact for a month on this social network for having violated its rules, by sharing a story of controversial content and doubtful veracity about the origin of the covid-19 pandemic.
In the publication of May 13, 2021 that gave rise to this demand, Mejía affirmed that the coronavirus that caused the health emergency of covid-19 had been created in a laboratory in China to damage the world’s economies and that this country should take responsibility for the millions of deaths globally.
Although conspiracy theories have always been flatly and categorically rejected by the Chinese Government, there is still no conclusive data on the origin of the coronavirus, and since May 27, 2021, Facebook stopped vetoing publications that attributed the start of the pandemic to human hand in a laboratory.
The social network created by Zuckerberg made that decision after learning of an intelligence report from the United States that reported the hospitalizations of several researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (China) in November 2019.
However, new attempts by the World Health Organization (WHO) to carry out further research on the origin of the coronavirus have so far been stopped short by the Chinese government, which feels it is the victim of a “politicization” of the issue.
Thus, Judge Fuentes ordered that Zuckerberg be notified through diplomatic channels and gave him an initial period of ten days to present his defense arguments in writing.
This lawsuit was initially rejected by the judge in July 2021 because Mejía did not present his complaint translated into English, for which he was given a period of ten days to correct the observation and re-evaluate the brief, which was finally admitted for processing this Wednesday. . (I)
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