https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/02/facebook-and-twitter-in-inexcusable-contempt-of-court-over-refusal-to-hand-over-private-messages-in-murder-case/

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter were cited by a judge for contempt of court for refusing to hand over private user communications sought by two men on trial for a Bay Area drive-by shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman.

“Facebook and Twitter appear to be misusing their immense resources to manipulate the judicial system in a manner that deprives two indigent young men facing life sentences of their constitutional right to defend themselves at trial,” San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charles Crompton wrote in an order last week.