{"id":1423,"date":"2024-06-18T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/section-230-immunity-wont-prevent-meta-from-facing-australian-billionaires-claims-over-scam-crypto-ads\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T22:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T22:33:21","slug":"section-230-immunity-wont-prevent-meta-from-facing-australian-billionaires-claims-over-scam-crypto-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/section-230-immunity-wont-prevent-meta-from-facing-australian-billionaires-claims-over-scam-crypto-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 230 Immunity Won&#8217;t Prevent Meta From Facing Australian Billionaire&#8217;s Claims Over Scam Crypto Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal district court judge in California ruled that Australia\u2019s second-richest person can sue Meta Platforms Inc. over its alleged negligence in operating in a commercially reasonable manner and for misappropriation of his name and likeness after scam Facebook advertisements showed him promoting fake cryptocurrencies and other investments.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Bryant, a partner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baileyglasser.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey Glasser<\/a> in Oakland, California, is the lead attorney for the plaintiff, Andrew Forrest. Forrest is a prominent Australian businessman and philanthropist, who sued the defendant, Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>  Andrew Forrest speaking at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023 in Greenwich, UK, on June 21, 2023. (Credit: Rick Robbins\/Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal district court judge in California ruled that Australia\u2019s second-richest person can sue Meta Platforms Inc. over its alleged negligence in operating in a commercially reasonable manner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2035,2032,2033,300,878,1047,613,1290,1882,2034,2031,916],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-ads","tag-australian","tag-billionaires","tag-claims","tag-crypto","tag-facing","tag-immunity","tag-meta","tag-prevent","tag-scam","tag-section","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}