{"id":1007768,"date":"2026-05-13T09:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007768"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:13:14","slug":"california-county-sues-meta-over-scam-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/13\/california-county-sues-meta-over-scam-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"California county sues Meta over scam ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams in violation of California&#8217;s false advertising and unfair business practices laws. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit &#8211; filed Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all California residents &#8211; accuses the social media giant of tolerating fraudulent advertising on a global basis. The suit seeks restitution, civil damages and an order prohibiting Meta from engaging in unfair business practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams in violation of California&#8217;s false advertising and unfair business practices laws. The lawsuit &#8211; filed Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all California residents &#8211; accuses the social media giant of tolerating fraudulent advertising on a global basis. The suit seeks restitution, civil damages and an order prohibiting Meta from engaging in unfair business practices.<\/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-1007768","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\/1007768","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=1007768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007796,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007768\/revisions\/1007796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}