Australian Celebrities Say Facebook Didn’t Do Enough To Stop Crypto Scams. The Government Agrees.
Andrew Forrest is an Australian billionaire who claims Facebook ignored all of his complaints over scammers using its platform for years. Getty Images An Australian government agency and a billionaire are suing Facebook’s parent company over claims it hasn’t done enough to protect consumers from scams using the names of celebrities on the social media platform. Andrew Forrest, Australia’s second-richest person, says he tried for years to get Facebook to act as photos of him were plastered across false advertisements on the social media platform, luring users into crypto scams. Forrest claims that thousands of people were deceived by the fake ads and tried to convince Facebook to take them down. However, Forrest says that it was not possible to make Facebook remove them. Forrest also stated that an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg failed to receive any response. “Meanwhile innocent Australians…kept investing under my name,” says Forrest, the founder and chairman of Fortescue M...