Wading into an issue of first impression for the circuit in which it sits, a federal court in Pennsylvania has determined that the federal Communications Decency Act bars a Philadelphia news anchor from suing Facebook and Reddit for allowing her photograph to be used on a dating website and in erectile dysfunction advertisements without her consent.

On June 5, U.S. District Judge John Milton Younge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed social media giants Reddit, Facebook and Imgur from the lawsuit, captioned Hepp v. Facebook, which Fox 29 anchor Karen Hepp had filed last year contending the sites were allowing a surreptitiously taken photograph of her to be misused.