{"id":1004720,"date":"2026-04-25T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004720"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:44:12","slug":"consumer-watchdog-group-files-suit-alleging-meta-profited-on-ads-for-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/consumer-watchdog-group-files-suit-alleging-meta-profited-on-ads-for-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer watchdog group files suit alleging Meta profited on ads for scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Federation of America has filed a class-action complaint against Meta Platforms, alleging that the social-media giant has profited from advertising for fraudulent activities on its platforms and misled users about its efforts to combat the problem. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meta has knowingly taken steps and adopted policies that pad its bottom line at the expense of its \u200cusers&#8217; safety and \u2060well-being,&#8221; \u2060states the complaint, which was filed Tuesday by CFA, an association of non-profit consumer organisations, in Superior Court in Washington, D.C. It asks for a jury trial and seeks to recover damages for local consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Federation of America has filed a class-action complaint against Meta Platforms, alleging that the social-media giant has profited from advertising for fraudulent activities on its platforms and misled users about its efforts to combat the problem. &#8220;Meta has knowingly taken steps and adopted policies that pad its bottom line at the expense of its \u200cusers&#8217; safety and \u2060well-being,&#8221; \u2060states the complaint, which was filed Tuesday by CFA, an association of non-profit consumer organisations, in Superior Court in Washington, D.C. It asks for a jury trial and seeks to recover damages for local consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004743,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004720\/revisions\/1004743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}