Zuckerberg Poised to Avoid Deposition Over Meta Tracking Pixel

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared likely to escape, at least in the short term, having to testify in a privacy suit over the social media giant’s collection of personal health information via its tracking pixel after a Ninth Circuit panel favored the idea that executives are too busy to appear for depositions.

“We’ve said very little” about the apex doctrine, “which is a little bit surprising that we’ve gotten this far without weighing in,” Judge Ryan D. Nelson said Friday during oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Even if the appeals court ...