Companies that profit from reaching people should be expected to protect them — not expose them to fraud in pursuit of even more revenue.

Santa Clara county claims Meta Platforms violated the state’s false advertising and unfair business practices laws ...

Meta Sued by California County Over Alleged Scam Ads on Social Media ...

Santa Clara accuses Meta of failing to regulate scam adds, months after landmark ruling against social media giants.

Santa Clara County sued Meta on Monday, accusing the tech giant of turning scam advertisements on Facebook and Instagram into a multibillion-dollar revenue stream while Californians lost billions to ...

Santa Clara County, home to much of Silicon Valley and many Meta employees, has filed a landmark lawsuit against Meta alleging the company knowingly profits from roughly $7 billion a year in scam ads ...

After DSA child safety violations, Meta is facing another major legal challenge after Santa Clara County filed a lawsuit accusing the tech company of profiting from fraudulent advertisements on ...

Santa Clara County leaders are suing Meta, alleging the company has engaged in a worldwide, systematic campaign to litter vulnerable Facebook and Instagram users' feeds with billions of scam ads by ...

A federal judge let fraud claims against Meta proceed, finding its AI ad tools may have helped build ads that impersonated a ...

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In today’s Digest we cover TikTok introducing an ad-free subscription in the UK and Byron Allen taking over BuzzFeed as CEO in a $120m buyout. We also discuss Meta being sued over scam ads in ...

Meta is failing to stop some con artists who repeatedly buy ads on the platforms to target seniors with scams, according to a new report.