Re:German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook a...
by kazinator on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:49PM
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And why only Meta? Google's YouTube is brimming over with scam ads. Google is even more liable because it's not simply providing a platform where the scams are posted as content; it's taking money from the scammers and placing their ads.
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Re:German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook a...
by 7bit on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:50PM
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Because that's not how any of this works.
Re:German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook a...
by kazinator on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:55PM
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Obviously! Please fill in the blanks.
Re:German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook a...
by buzer on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:39PM
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This was civil injunction & damages case. For court to declare judgement against Google (or any other company) someone needs to sue them. That's expensive and people in EU are not nearly as sue-happy as people on other side of Atlantic. Many courts in EU also have loser-pays model so there is huge financial risk in suing huge multinational corporation whose final legal bill might be bigger than person's lifetime earnings. And depending on country they might not even have personal bankruptcy available to discharge that.
This also heavily relies on recent CJEU ruling (WebGroup/Coyote, 16 June 2026, C-188/24) which essentially opened up the E-Commerce Directive's liability shield that platforms have been relying on so far. Essentially it said that that platform's are not necessarily neutral hosting providers when they control the algorithms that determine the dissemination. So I would expect more rulings to come, but it will take time.
Re:German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook a...
by imawakegnxoxo on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:30PM
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If meta and google know that you're pregnant before you do, they can't possibly not know the company whose ads they're serving is a scam