A lawsuit seeking class action status accuses Meta of rolling back its now shuttered Facebook Watch streaming video service to give Netflix a clear path as part of a deal to split the spoils of the new digital landscape.

The proposed class action points to Meta's streaming ambitions with Facebook Watch, whose original programming division shuttered last year.

Netflix and Meta are being sued for an alleged agreement that, the suit states, involved the deliberate "hobbling" of Facebook Watch.

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed this week in an Illinois federal court alleges that Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) and Netflix entered into an un