[3][4][5][6] Facebook countersued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by The Winklevoss Chang Group, an alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub.
[16][17] On April 12, 2011, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the Winklevoss brothers, whose fight over Facebook's origins was a major narrative arc of the film The Social Network, cannot back out of a settlement they signed with the company in 2008.
Seven months after the initial launch of houseSYSTEM Greenspan added a new social networking module called FaceNet to compete with Facebook, telling the Harvard Crimson, "It is possible for multiple sites to co-exist.
[23] Facebook, Inc. agreed to a formal settlement with Greenspan in late May 2009 and issued a press release, but the terms were not disclosed.
[24] On 15 February 2022, Racine's lawyers stated that Facebook had not arranged Zuckerberg's deposition, despite a court judge allowing it in a January 10 order.
On February 1, Facebook's lawyers requested the judge to block Zuckerberg's deposition, arguing that he does not have any information to give and that the District's efforts were an attempt at harassment.
[84] The lawsuit was initially dismissed in June 2021 but was launched again in an amended state in August 2021, citing Facebook's buyouts of rivals as a cause for alarm.
In March 2022, the Chamber of Commerce rejected the 46 states' appeal to revive their lawsuit, citing the overly long waiting period between Facebooks's acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram and the filing of the suit.