Israeli spyware firm employees sue Facebook over blocked accounts

Eight employees of Israeli spyware company NSO Group that sells controversial Pegasus software to help governments snoop on people have sued Facebook demanding that the social networking giant must unblock their accounts on its platform, as well as Instagram.The plaintiffs asked the Tel Aviv District Court to order Facebook to unblock the accounts until the issues are decided in court, Haaretz reported on Wednesday.They alleged that Facebook violated its agreement with them by blocking the accounts arbitrarily and without notice, and without providing a reason.Facebook said in a statement that it had disabled "relevant accounts" after attributing a "sophisticated cyber attack" to NSO Group and its employees.Facebook sued NSO Group in October for creating the Pegasus software that allowed its

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