A US judge has rejected Meta Platforms' bid to dismiss a lawsuit by billionaire Australian mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest over scam Facebook advertisements that show him promoting fake cryptocurrency and other fraudulent investments.In a decision on Monday, US District Judge Casey Pitts in San Jose, California said Australia's second-richest person can try to prove that Meta's negligence in allowing the ads breached its duty to operate in a commercially reasonable manner.Forrest can also try to prove that his name and likeness was misappropriated by Meta, and not just by fraudsters behind the bogus ads.
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