Alerts the county sent to cellphones warning people to immediately evacuate were never received, unbeknownst to the county, the lawsuit said.

Ethan Zuckerman's Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension lets people erase all their follows and start from scratch, but Meta has previously argued that such tools violate its terms.

Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds? A lawsuit filed against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is arguing that a federal law often used to shield internet companies from liability also allows people to use external tools to take control of their feed — even if that means shutting it off entirely.

Meta Platforms gets sued by First Amendment advocacy group that wants to allow an external tool that would let people control their content feeds.