A misused Facebook post can help companies gather evidence against former employees who steal trade secrets (“How To Gather Digital Evidence of Trade Secret Theft”) and can reverse a litigant’s chances in court (“Facebook Posts Can Backfire in Court”). But now a Facebook page is coming under scrutiny for a pharmaceutical failure to warn.
In Epstein Becker Green’s Toxic Tort Litigation blog, William Ruskin explains that drugmaker IBSA Institut Biochimique S.A. posted on its Facebook page about using the drug Tirosint to combat hypothyroidism. However, the Food and Drug Administration didn’t approve this diagnosis and warned the company “that its Facebook webpage was false or misleading because it made representations about the efficacy of Tirosint, but failed to communicate any risk information associated with its use and omitted material facts,” Ruskin said.
