Meta cited a section of a 1996 federal law in an attempt to escape a crypto ad lawsuit from Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest, but a U.S. federal judge said it wasn’t enough.
A United States judge has rejected Meta Platform’s bid to toss a lawsuit from billionaire Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest over Facebook ads that used deep fakes in his image to promote scam crypto schemes.
California District Judge Casey Pitts said in a Monday, June 17 order that Forrest could re-file his suit and try to prove that Meta’s negligence in failing to stop the scam ads broke its duty to operate in a “commercially reasonable manner.”
Meta argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act exempted it from responsibility as a publisher of third-party content — an argument YouTube had unsuccessfully used to try to avoid blame for crypto scam ads on its platform.
