@jhall251 @jgilbert Respectfully, I don't think you quite grasp how this works. If your company is operating in a state where the law says something is criminal, there is no 'stand up to a warrant in court', because the courts will rule against you nearly instantly and levy a punishment.

It's really not a Meta thing. Every phone company, every taxi service or ride share, every social media provider, university, grocery, pharmacy, and doctor would comply with a warrant, regardless of what it's for. It would make national news if they didn't, and they'd lose if they tried to fight it.

It's likely that Meta doesn't even interpret the reason for the warrant, they have a department that handles hundreds or thousands of signed court orders a day and probably a bunch of automated tools to speed compliance.

I work on a team that interfaces between the lawyers and the information systems. We don't even know the reasons for legal holds and discovery requests we satisfy for the courts, we just get names and data request details from the lawyers and feed them to the scripts.