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Uvalde parents sue gunmaker, Call of Duty manufacturer and Meta

SAN ANTONIO — The lawyer who won a record-setting settlement for Sandy Hook families announced two lawsuits Friday on behalf of the relatives of Uvalde school shooting victims against the manufacturer of the AR-15-style weapon used in the attack, as well as the publisher of Call of Duty video games and the social media giant Meta.

The lawsuits against Daniel Defense, known for its high-end rifles; Activision, the manufacturer of the Call of Duty first- ­person-shooter series, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, may be the first of their kind to connect aggressive firearms marketing tactics on social media and gaming platforms to the actions of a mass shooter.

The complaints contend the three companies are responsible for “grooming” a generation of “socially vulnerable” young men radicalized to live out violent video game fantasies in the real world with easily accessible weapons of war .

One of those men, the legal team argues, was Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos. The lawsuits allege Meta and Activision “knowingly exposed the Shooter to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems, and trained him to use it.”

“Over the last 15 years, two of America’s largest technology companies — Defendants Activision and Meta — have partnered with the firearms industry in a scheme that makes the Joe Camel campaign look laughably harmless, even quaint,” the complaint states.

The lawsuits are part of an intensifying quest for accountability by Uvalde victims’ relatives through the civil courts. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed in the attack, one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Law enforcement officers waited 77 minutes to enter the classroom and kill the gunman.

“The truth is that the gun industry and Daniel Defense didn’t act alone. They couldn’t have reached this kid but for Instagram,” attorney Josh Koskoff said of the shooter. “They couldn’t expose him to the dopamine loop of virtually killing a person. That’s what Call of Duty does.”

This week, Koskoff announced his clients had reached a $2 million insurance payout with the city of Uvalde, which agreed to reforms to improve its police department. The city also agreed to establish May 24 as an annual day of remembrance, make improvements to the local cemetery, work with them on plans for a permanent memorial and offer continued support for children’s mental health.

On Wednesday, Uvalde families filed a new lawsuit against 92 members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, including state troopers and Texas Rangers who responded to the scene. Victims’ families are upset that relatively few officers have lost their jobs , despite the long delay in entering the classroom. The DPS director, Col. Steve McCraw, remains the state’s top cop despite promises to resign if his agency were found to be culpable.

In January, the Justice Department released a damning 575-page catalogue of confusion, lack of courage and their deadly consequences. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that “ lives would have been saved ” if officers had responded quickly.

The new lawsuits against police, the firearms manufacturer, the online gaming publisher and the social media company attempt to close the accountability gap left open by authorities, attorneys said. Koskoff, the medical-malpractice and personal-injury lawyer who won a $73 million settlement on behalf of the Newtown, Conn., families in 2022, said Wednesday in Uvalde his clients are still waiting for answers.

“What is enabling these school shooters or any shooter?” he said. The children “were failed long before the shooting.”

In a statement, Activision expressed sympathy to the families and communities impacted by the “horrendous and heartbreaking” shooting. But they said: “Millions of people around the world enjoy video games without turning to horrific acts.”

Meta and Daniel Defense did not respond to requests for comment.

In the years since the 2012 shooting in Koskoff’s home state of Connecticut, his firm has been working closely with the victims of mass shootings across the country. In the case against Remington, the then-manufacturer of the Bushmaster rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Koskoff’s team managed to find a loophole around the federal immunity law shielding the gun industry from most tort litigation.

Only one other industry — online platforms such as Facebook’s parent company — enjoys the same kind of legal protection from liability that firearms manufacturers lobbied for and won from Congress in 2005.

Koskoff’s challenge was expected to fail. But he argued that the gunmaker violated a state statute, specifically consumer protection laws outlawing unscrupulous marketing. The state Supreme Court allowed the case to move forward, granting Koskoff that most precious of gifts to an attorney: discovery.

Internal documents and communications demonstrated the questionable tactics the company, which was in bankruptcy at the time, used to sell its firearms.

“The families refused to settle and wanted to release the discovery results they achieved,” Georgetown University law professor Heidi Li Feldman said. “That’s the power of discovery, to open up all these companies to more litigation. When product manufacturers are involved in shady marketing practices, they fear the spotlight.”

Before it could go further, the insurers settled. The case provided a road map for future civil litigation, some experts said.

“I think it opened a lot of eyes that maybe PLCAA [the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act] wasn’t the brick wall we all thought it was,” said Adam Skaggs, vice president and chief counsel of the Giffords Law Center, which fights for laws to end gun violence. “Clearly, it’s not impossible and that kind of changed the game.”

Several state legislatures, including California and Hawaii, passed consumer safety laws specific to the sale and marketing of firearms that would open the industry to more civil liability. Texas is not one of them. But it’s just one vein in the three-pronged legal push by Uvalde families.

The lawsuit against Activision and Meta, which is being filed in California, accuses the tech companies of knowingly promoting dangerous weapons to millions of vulnerable young people, particularly young men who are “insecure about their masculinity, often bullied, eager to show strength and assert dominance.”

“To put a finer point on it: Defendants are chewing up alienated teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters,” the lawsuit states.

Research shows that there is some correlation between playing violent video games and exhibiting more aggressive behaviors, but there is little evidence that the games lead to violent crime such as mass shootings, said David Dupee, a chief psychiatry resident at Stanford Health.

“The evidence definitely supports guns being the issue far more … than it does to violent video games,” said Dupee, who researched the topic while working for Stanford’s Brainstorm Lab . “We’re not the only society that has a large utilization of violent video games, but we are the main modern society that has ready access to firearms.”

In the filings, Koskoff laid out what is perhaps the most detailed narrative yet of the forces that may have shaped Ramos’s decision to buy the powerful rifle he used to slaughter children on May 24, 2022.

The families allege in court that while Ramos was still 17, he put the gun in an online shopping cart. The lawyers contend that when he didn’t immediately proceed in purchasing the AR-15-style rifle, Daniel Defense saw it as an opportunity, emailing Ramos a targeted offer and telling him the weapon was “ready” for him.

“Daniel Defense’s marketing strategy is to be the company where adolescents get their first gun at 18,” Koskoff said.

The lawsuit alleges that Meta, which owns Instagram, easily allows gun manufacturers like Daniel Defense to circumvent its ban on paid firearm advertisements to reach scores of young people. Under Meta’s rules , gunmakers are not allowed to buy advertisements promoting the sale of or use of weapons, ammunition or explosives. But gunmakers are free to post promotional material about weapons from their own account pages on Facebook and Instagram — a freedom the lawsuit alleges Daniel Defense often exploited.

According to the complaint, the Robb school shooter downloaded a version of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,” in November 2021 that featured on the opening title page the DDM4V7 model rifle Ramos would later purchase. Drawing from the shooter’s social media accounts, Koskoff argued he was being bombarded with explicit marketing and combat imagery from the company on Instagram.

The lawsuit cites an image Daniel Defense posted on Instagram of soldiers on patrol, with no animal in sight, and a caption that reads: “Hunters Hunt.” In another post, Daniel Defense shared an image of one of its rifles sporting a configuration it said was “totally murdered out,” according to the lawsuit. Daniel Defense still runs its accounts on Instagram and Facebook, where the company continues to routinely post images of its guns.

Such leniency is part of a broader pattern by Meta to treat firearm sellers with a light touch, the lawsuit alleges.

The complaint cites Meta’s practice, first reported by The Washington Post in 2022, of giving gun sellers wide latitude to knowingly break its rules against selling firearms on its websites. The company has allowed buyers and sellers to violate the rule 10 times before they are kicked off, The Post reported.

Meta’s penalties for firearm sales were more lenient than for users who posted child pornography, which is illegal, or terrorism imagery, which prompts immediate removal from the platform.

Meta has over the years also come under criticism for allowing the sale of guns directly on its platform. After the 2o12 Sandy Hook shooting, a coalition of activist groups, including the parents of the slain students, pushed Meta, then called Facebook, to limit sales of gun on its platform. Then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman later alleged the company was allowing people to evade laws requiring a background check in many states. By 2016, the company had banned peer-to-peer firearm sales as well as the sale of ammunition and parts.

Since then, media outlets have routinely found that sellers can easily evade those bans in dedicated Facebook groups or on Facebook Marketplace, the company’s classified services.

Much of the new Uvalde lawsuit against Meta echoes some of the complaints by dozens of state attorneys general and school districts that have accused the tech giant of using manipulative practices to hook children on its platforms while exposing them to harmful content.

The Uvalde families are likely to encounter significant hurdles in each of the new lawsuits they are filing. Their legal strategy revolves around a Texas statute that makes it illegal to offer to sell a firearm to a minor. But the state vigorously defends its state law enforcers and gunmakers.

The legal team’s past victory bears little resemblance to the fight ahead of it, said UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, a Second Amendment expert. Remington is not Daniel Defense, which has no incentive to back down or settle, lest it face boycotts from the rest of the industry, he said.

“You’re talking about one of the ideological stalwarts of the gun rights movement,” Winkler said. “They are a small outfit but they played a leading role.”

But the families may have new reason for optimism in their cases against Meta and Activision. A New York judge has allowed a case brought by families affected by the Tops supermarket shooting in Buffalo, to hold several social media companies’ algorithms responsible for radicalizing the shooter, to move forward toward discovery.

“Whatever advantages the gun industry has through the federal immunity law, it’s not a blanket get-out-of-jail-free card,” Winkler said. “When companies make decisions to market particularly dangerous products or use marketing tactics that encourage particularly troubled young men to commit heinous acts, the victims of those heinous acts have the opportunity to try to hold them accountable.”

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Uvalde Families Sue Meta and Call of Duty Maker

USTIN, Texas (AP) — Families in Uvalde took more legal action Friday on the second anniversary of the Robb Elementary School attack , suing Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram, and the maker of the video game Call of Duty over claims the companies bear responsibility for products used by the teenage gunman.

They also filed another lawsuit against Daniel Defense, which manufactured the AR-style rifle used in the May 24, 2022, shooting — and has already been sued.

It added to mounting lawsuits over the attack and came as the small Texas city gathered to mourn the anniversary of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. Officers finally confronted and shot him after waiting more than an hour to enter the fourth-grade classroom.

“There is a direct line between the conduct of these companies and the Uvalde shooting,” said Josh Koskoff, an attorney for the families. “This three-headed monster knowingly exposed him to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as a tool to solve his problems and trained him to use it.”

Some of the same families on Wednesday filed a $500 million lawsuit against Texas state police officials and officers who were part of the botched law enforcement response that day. More than 370 federal, state and local officers responded but waited more than an hour to confront the shooter inside the classroom as students and teaches lay dead, dying or wounded.

Friday’s lawsuits are not the first to accuse technology companies of having a role in radicalizing or influencing mass shooters. Families of victims in a May 2022 attack on a Buffalo, New York, supermarket sued social media companies , including Meta and Instagram, over content on their platforms.

The lawsuit against Georgia-based gun-maker Daniel Defense was filed in Texas by the same group of 19 families who sued on Wednesday. The lawsuit against Meta and Activision Blizzard — the maker of Call of Duty — were filed in California with additional families of victims from the attack.

Activision called the Uvalde shooting “horrendous and heartbreaking in every way, and we express our deepest sympathies to the families and communities who remain impacted by this senseless act of violence. Millions of people around the world enjoy video games without turning to horrific acts.”

A video game industry trade group also pushed back on blaming games for violence, arguing research has found no link.

“We are saddened and outraged by senseless acts of violence. At the same time, we discourage baseless accusations linking these tragedies to video gameplay, which detract from efforts to focus on the root issues in question and safeguard against future tragedies,” the Entertainment Software Association said.

The amount of damages sought in the new lawsuits was not immediately clear.

According to the lawsuits, the Uvalde shooter had played versions of Call of Duty since he was 15, including one that allowed him to effectively practice with the version of the rifle he used at the school. The families also accused Instagram of doing little to enforce its rules that ban marketing firearms and harmful content to children.

The Uvalde shooter opened an online account with Daniel Defense before his 18th birthday and purchased the rifle as soon as he could, according to the lawsuit.

“Simultaneously, on Instagram, the shooter was being courted through explicit, aggressive marketing. In addition to hundreds of images depicting and venerating the thrill of combat, Daniel Defense used Instagram to extol the illegal, murderous use of its weapons,” the families’ attorneys said in a statement.

Daniel Defense and Meta each did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment.

In a congressional hearing in 2022, Daniel Defense CEO Marty Daniels called the Uvalde shooting and others like it “pure evil” and “deeply disturbing.”

A separate lawsuit filed by different plaintiffs in December 2022 against local and state police, the city, and other school and law enforcement, seeks at least $27 billion and class-action status for survivors. At least two other lawsuits have been filed against Daniel Defense .

In Uvalde, community members planned a vigil to remember those killed. Other events included a bell ringing and butterfly release at a local church.

“As we mark this solemn day, may we pray for those we lost, their loved ones, and all those who were wounded,” President Joe Biden said in a letter to the community.

This story has been updated to say that the gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.

Photo: FILE – Flowers are piled around crosses with the names of the victims killed in a school shooting as people visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School to pay their respects May 31, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 PS4 Version Seemingly Confirmed

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will launch on the PS4 in addition to current-gen platforms, it seems. Last week, images of a GameStop pre-order screen for the game was leaked by an employee, revealing that Black Ops 6 will release on both PlayStation platforms. An Xbox One version wasn’t listed but Xbox games don’t need separate SKUs, so it’s probably a cross-gen copy.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 PS4 release corroborated by reliable insider

Following the leak, known insider Tom Henderson said that he independently verified the news via his sources, and has been told that Black Ops 6 will indeed land on the PS4. Henderson’s sources have suggested that Call of Duty HQ makes it easy for Activision to continue supporting the last-gen platform.

Additionally, Black Ops 6 is expected to release on the next Nintendo Switch console, thanks to Microsoft’s 10-year Call of Duty deal with the company. Microsoft also signed a deal with Sony .

According to developer sources, the franchise doesn't necessarily need to move away from past-generation since the move to the Call of Duty HQ. As part of the Microsoft / Activision deal, which will bring COD to Nintendo for 10 years, it's understood that Call of Duty will be… — Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) May 24, 2024

This news may be surprising considering the PS4’s age. However, Sony recently revealed that half of PlayStation’s active user base is on the PS4 , not PS5. Add to this the fact that Microsoft is planning to release Black Ops 6 on Game Pass, and it makes sense why Activision doesn’t want to let go of the last-gen revenue.

Zarmena is a senior editor at PSLS. She has been with the site since 2014.

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‘Duty to warn’ guided US advance warning of the Moscow attack. Adversaries don’t always listen

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In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on March 23, 2024, firefighters work in the burned concert hall after an attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. A little-known U.S. intelligence principle called the “duty to warn” came into play ahead of the deadly attack on Moscow’s outskirts. U.S. officials invoked that duty when warning Russian officials a full two weeks before Friday’s attack. Just three days before the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed such Western warnings as provocations. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin addressees the nation in Moscow, Russia, March 23, 2024. A little-known U.S. intelligence principle called the “duty to warn” came into play ahead of the deadly attack on Moscow’s outskirts. U.S. officials invoked that duty when warning Russian officials a full two weeks before the attack on Friday, March 22. Just three days before the attack, Putin dismissed such Western warnings as provocations. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. warning to Russia couldn’t have been plainer: Two weeks before the deadliest attack in Russia in years, Americans had publicly and privately advised President Vladimir Putin’s government that “extremists” had “imminent plans” for just such slaughter.

The United States shared those advance intelligence indications under a tenet of the U.S. intelligence community called the “duty to warn,” which obliges U.S. intelligence officials to lean toward sharing knowledge of a dire threat if conditions allow. That holds whether the targets are allies, adversaries or somewhere in between.

There’s little sign Russia acted to try to head off Friday’s attack at a concert hall on Moscow’s edge, which killed more than 130 people. The Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan claimed responsibility, and the U.S. said it has information backing up the extremist group’s claim.

John Kirby, the Biden administration’s national security spokesman, made clear that the warning shouldn’t be seen as a breakthrough in U.S.-Russian relations or intelligence-sharing. “Yeah, look, there’s not going to be security assistance with Russia and the United States,” Kirby told reporters Monday.

“We had a duty to warn them of information that we had, clearly that they didn’t have. We did that,” Kirby said.

Such warnings aren’t always heeded — the United States has dropped the ball in the past on at least one Russian warning of extremist threats in the United States.

Here’s a look at the duty to warn, how it came about, and how it can play out when American intelligence officers learn militants are poised to strike.

AHEAD OF THE ATTACK, A CLEAR US WARNING

On March 7, the U.S. government went public with a remarkably precise warning: The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was monitoring unspecified reports that “extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts.” It warned U.S. citizens in Moscow to avoid big events over the next 48 hours.

U.S. officials said after the attack that they had shared the warning with Russian officials as well, under the duty to warn, but gave no details how.

Putin’s public reaction was dismissive. Three days before the attack, he condemned what he called “provocative statements” from the West about possible attacks within Russia. Such warnings were aimed at intimidating Russians and destabilizing the country, he said.

DUTY TO WARN

The U.S. emphasis on sharing threat warnings increased after al-Qaeda’s Aug. 7, 1998, attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. While dozens of U.S. citizens and government employees of different nationalities were killed, Kenyans made up the majority of the victims.

In 2015, then national intelligence director James Clapper formalized duty to warn in an official directive: The U.S. intelligence community bore “a responsibility to warn U.S. and non-U.S. persons of impending threats of intentional killing, serious bodily injury or kidnapping.”

The order also spelled out occasions when intelligence officials could waive the duty to warn and stay silent despite looming danger. That includes when the target is an assassin or other extreme bad guy, or when disclosing the warning could “unduly endanger” U.S. personnel or their sources, those of intelligence partners among foreign governments, or their intelligence or defense operations.

SHARED WARNINGS AND THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

The intelligence community under former President Donald Trump faced accusations it had failed to warn U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi of a complex plot by Saudi officials that ended with his 2018 killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Media foundations say U.S. intelligence agencies did not respond to requests for any records showing whether they knew of the plot in advance.

Under the Biden administration, the sharing of threats to other governments has flourished, although there’s no way to know of any threats that the U.S. intelligence community may have decided to let play out, without warning the targets.

Strategic U.S. dissemination of intelligence hit a high point in the months before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. That’s when the U.S. opted to declassify key intelligence on Russia’s invasion plans to rally allies and Ukraine, and — unsuccessfully — to pressure Russia to call off its troops.

In a Foreign Affairs article this spring, CIA Director William Burns spoke of a growing awareness of the value of “intelligence diplomacy” — the strategic use of intelligence findings to bolster allies and confound adversaries.

SHARING ISN’T ALWAYS CARING

The duty to warn doesn’t mean the other side has a duty to listen. That’s especially so when the other side is an adversary.

In January, a U.S. official said, Americans had given a similar warning to Iranian officials ahead of bombings in the Iranian city of Kerman . The Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack, twin suicide bombings that killed 95 people.

It’s not clear if the warning led to any additional security precautions at the event, a commemoration of the 2020 killing of an Iranian general by a U.S. drone strike.

In 2004, another adversary, the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, an anti-U.S. populist, was “suspicious and incredulous” when U.S. officials relayed a warning of an extremist plot to kill him, Stephen McFarland, a former U.S. diplomat in Central and South America, said Monday on X.

That kind of deep distrust has often kept threat warnings from landing as intended when it comes to Russia and the United States. That’s true even with common dangers that both face, including the Islamic State and al-Qaida.

Historically, Russians can regard any U.S. attempt at counterintelligence cooperation against that kind of shared threat as naive, and look for any openings to use it for political gain or to undermine U.S. intelligence-gathering, Steven Hall, a longtime U.S. intelligence official in the former Soviet Union, wrote after his retirement in 2015.

In 2013, it was U.S. officials who, tragically, failed adequately to follow up on a Russian warning, a U.S. government review concluded later.

Concerned the man posed a threat to Russia as well, Russia’s Federal Security Service in 2011 warned U.S. officials that a U.S. resident, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was an adherent of extremist groups. After U.S. officials concluded Tsarnaev was not a threat in the U.S., he and his younger brother planted bombs along the route of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds.

AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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