Facebook owner Meta has argued the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has “misallocated responsibility” in its three-year-old case over scam cryptocurrency ads on the social media platform.
Meta has successfully opposed an Australian start-up’s ‘Reelstar’ trade mark, with a delegate finding it was too similar to the social media company’s mark for its short-form video brand Reel.
The eSafety commissioner has said it will take a “principles-based approach” to the government’s plan to ban social media ban for children under 16, saying platforms will not be required to verify the ages of all users.
A judge has ordered Facebook owner Meta to file its defence in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s three-year-old case over scam cryptocurrency ads on the social media platform.
Meta has lost its latest bid to strike out the consumer regulator’s case alleging it failed to put up “reasonable safeguards” to prevent scam cryptocurrency ads on its Facebook platform.
The ACCC is again trying to fend off a strike-out bid by Facebook owner Meta in its case over cryptocurrency ads, arguing Meta has built a system in which the misleading ads can flourish and is not an “innocent bystander”. The regulator lodged the case in March 2022, alleging it breached the Australian Consumer Law…
A six-year legal battle by a Melbourne social media start-up over its termination from Meta’s platforms still rages, but for all that the case, according to the tech giant, is not one of epic — or even Epic — proportions.
Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $50 million to settle action by the privacy commissioner over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
A court has refused leave to appeal a permanent stay of a class action run, funded and led by lawyer Andrew Hamilton against Google and Meta that challenged their crypto ad bans.
Over objections from the ACCC, a judge has struck out the regulator’s entire case against Meta over scam cryptocurrency ads on Facebook after it clarified that each allegedly misleading ad should be a separate contravention.