Shareholders Sue Netflix For Lying About Company’s Growth

Netflix has been sued by shareholders who suffered significant losses and damages for lying about the company’s growth and its failure to retain subscribers.

Netflix shareholders filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing the streaming service's management of deception by giving inaccurate subscriber growth expectations, which caused the stock price to plummet.

The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, claims that the streaming service neglected to disclose that it is "losing subscribers on a net basis." Plaintiffs claim to "have suffered significant losses and damages" because they were unaware of Netflix's failure to retain subscribers.

The allegedly misled investors feel that the world's largest streaming service is on the decline, owing to client account sharing and growing competition from other streaming services.

Netflix announced last month that it had lost roughly 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, with another two million expected to leave in the c...

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