Zuckerberg Avoids Testimony for Now in Texas Face-Scanning Suit

Mark Zuckerberg will no longer be called for a deposition next week in Texas’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc. profited from facial recognition technology without user consent.

Granting an emergency request from Meta, the state supreme court blocked a lower-court order that the social media giant’s chief executive officer give testimony by Feb. 5. The high court put the deposition on hold while an appellate panel considers Texas’s argument that Zuckerberg has “unique personal knowledge” of information relevant to the case.