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rands,
Health Service. The Public Health Service is part of U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services ("HHS").
5.
Defendant Xavier Becerra is the Secretary of HHS. HHS is a cabinet-level
department and federal agency that oversees the government's public, social services, medical,
and scientific efforts.
THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM1
6.
Facebook, a subsidiary of parent company Meta, operates a social media platform.
The Facebook platform allows users to post content, including writings, links, photographs, and
videos, for other Facebook users to see. The public may also see user posted content to the limited
extent content displays without a Facebook account. Individuals and organizations who create
Facebook accounts can communicate with other users on the platform.
7.
Users. Any individual or organization that has created an account on the platform
is a Facebook "user." Individual Facebook users can connect with other users by "friending" them;
these connected users are called Facebook "friends." When users post content on the Facebook
platform, they have the option of making their posts visible to the public (potentially including
non-Facebook users), to their friends only, or to a subset of their friends.
8.
Pages. Users who want to create Facebook accounts for "businesses, brands,
organizations, [or] public figures" can create Facebook "pages." Facebook pages include the title
of the business or organization, and an "About" section where the administrator of the page can
provide information concerning the business or organization. Part of the NIH page recently looked
like this:
1 The parties agree that the Court may take judicial notice of the information published in the "Using Facebook" and
"Policies and Reporting" guides available on Facebook's website, https://www.facebook.com/help.
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| Record | Date | Type | Pages |
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| nih_public_comments:exh:00009 | — | attachment | 21 |