In 2017, Anas Modamani brought the world’s first lawsuit against Facebook for violating an individual user’s rights: Modamani v. Facebook. What happened next reveals the measures Facebook is willing to take to protect their business model - at the expense of the user. Modamani’s story is not only a testament to the real-life cost of online hate speech and disinformation, but it exposes our true powerlessness as users and just how unprepared our governments are to fight the giant that is Facebook.