A former Facebook marketing partner who accused the social media giant of revoking its Facebook and Instagram licenses under false pretenses has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against the company.

Stackla Inc. and Facebook filed a joint stipulation to dismiss Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The San Francisco-based content marketer’s business model leverages artificial intelligence to extract user-generated social media posts for its clients from Facebook’s application programming interface. When Facebook kicked the company off its platforms in August over privacy concerns, Stackla alleged the move would crush the third-party marketer, and was a pretext to snuff out more bad press after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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