{"id":1012628,"date":"2026-06-06T08:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012628"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:12:37","slug":"thai-watchdog-to-sue-meta-over-facebook-scam-ads-targeting-users-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/thai-watchdog-to-sue-meta-over-facebook-scam-ads-targeting-users-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai watchdog to sue Meta over Facebook scam ads targeting users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s consumer watchdog said it will sue \u200bMeta&#8217;s Facebook for allegedly \u200ballowing scammers to use the platform to \u200bdefraud users through adverts and for failing to protect consumers, the Consumer Council said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Meta did not immediately respond to a \u200cReuters request \u2060for comment. \u2060In previous cases, the company has said it invests in measures \u200bto detect and remove scam content and works with regulators and \u200blaw enforcement to combat misuse of its platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s consumer watchdog said it will sue \u200bMeta&#8217;s Facebook for allegedly \u200ballowing scammers to use the platform to \u200bdefraud users through adverts and for failing to protect consumers, the Consumer Council said on Thursday. Meta did not immediately respond to a \u200cReuters request \u2060for comment. \u2060In previous cases, the company has said it invests in measures \u200bto detect and remove scam content and works with regulators and \u200blaw enforcement to combat misuse of its platforms.<\/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-1012628","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\/1012628","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=1012628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012634,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012628\/revisions\/1012634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}