‘Imposing collective punishment’: Employees of Israeli spyware company NSO Group countersue Facebook for deplatforming

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Eight employees of infamous Israeli spyware company NSO Group are countersuing Facebook after it took their accounts offline while suing NSO for spying on thousands of users of its subsidiary WhatsApp through a security exploit.

The current and former NSO Group employees slammed Facebook’s “barbarous and unilateral” decision to block their private accounts “just because the company they work for or previously worked for was sued by Facebook,” claiming in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday that the deplatforming violates Facebook’s own terms of service.

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