Lawsuit: Sister of slain Oakland federal officer claims Facebook encouraged alleged killers – KTVU

Published January 6, 2022 7:44PM Meta sued over federal officers death KTVU’s Andre Senior reports. OAKLAND, Calif. – On the night of May 28, 2020, the streets of downtown Oakland were packed with people protesting the death of George Floyd when David Patrick Underwood was shot and killed while protecting a federal building, by someone using the demonstration as cover to carry out the crime. Underwood’s sister, Angela Underwood Jacobs filed a wrongful death suit against Facebook, now known as Meta, claiming the social media company radicalized the alleged shooter.The key suspect, Steven Carrillo, met alleged his accomplice, Millbrae resident Robert Alvin Justus Junior, on a Facebook group. The suit alleges that Facebook kept Carrillo engaged on the platform by using its algorithm to feed into his echo chamber with inflammatory content and spoon-feeding him information on extremist groups, a move that critics say keeps users engaged and in turn drives-up ad sales. “Facebook is much more than just a landing spot, a bulletin board if you will, or just a platform,” said Theodore J. Leopold of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, who is Jacobs’ Attorney. “These two gentlemen in particular would not have garnered that relationship but for Facebook’s inferred…
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