Facebook argues it doesn’t belong in former N.B. doctor’s lawsuit alleging racist posts – CBC

New Brunswick Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, is one of three defendants named in a lawsuit filed by Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola in 2022. After he was accused of defying COVID-19 protocol in 2020, Ngola claims Facebook allowed racist content about him to circulate online. Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola is suing Meta Platforms for ‘harmful’ and ‘racist’ posts about him from 2020 Katelin Belliveau · CBC News · Posted: Aug 26, 2025 3:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook, says it wasn’t flagged about posts that led a former New Brunswick to name the company in a lawsuit. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) The company that owns Facebook argued in a Moncton courtroom Tuesday that it should be removed from a lawsuit brought by a former Campbellton doctor. Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola is suing Meta Platforms Inc., which owns Facebook. He claims the company had a hand in events that led him to leave his practice in New Brunswick five years ago. “The entire thing should be struck out,” Miranda Spence, who represents Meta Platforms, told Justice Maya Hamou in Moncton’s Court of King’s Bench. In the spring of 2020, Ngola was accused of failing to isolate properly at the
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