After suffering a setback in Australian courts, the next bout of Andrew Forrest’s legal fight against Facebook owner Meta will take place in California next month.
, has campaigned to purge social media sites of advertisements featuring his image that promote financial scams designed to swindle Australians out of their savings.
Unsatisfied with Meta’s response to his complaints, Forrest has launched two court cases; a criminal case in Western Australia and a civil lawsuit in the US. Forrest’s claim alleges Meta has the ability to filter out scam ads but chooses not to, for its own financial benefit. Meta declined to comment.
“How successful this would be is unclear given that platforms have greater protection from tort and related liability in the US and arguably more stringent free speech protections.”Legal experts argue the two cases have made it clear to regulators that platforms like Meta and X view compliance with certain Australian laws as voluntary, and if they refuse to obey it’s a long and slow legal route to force them to do so.
He is hoping he’ll have more luck in the US, where Meta is based, when a Californian judge will decide next month whether to dismiss Forrest’s civil case.Court documents state that the terms and conditions that Meta imposes on users of its social media platforms and its advertising customers in Australia require them to bring suit against Meta in the US.
“Meta’s corporate structure, the terms of service it imposes on users and advertisers in Australia, its intra-group agreements, and its recalcitrance in submitting to jurisdiction in Australia are all a result of deliberate corporate choices designed to export Section 230 immunity to cover Meta’s advertising and other activities abroad,” the filing states. “...
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