Facebook sues Indian techie for running deceptive ads, fake news on coronavirus
Facebook sues Indian techie for running deceptive ads, fake news on coronavirus
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The government is repeatedly appealing to people to stop fake news on social media about the Coronavirus. Apart from this, in order to prevent fake news, WhatsApp has now limited the message forwarding to one, but people are not desirous of sharing fake news on social media. Now Facebook has filed a case in California court for sharing fake information and fraudulent advertisements related to Coronavirus on an Indian running software company. Facebook took this action after it found the information in the review process of the company's ads to be misleading.

Facebook alleges that Basant Gajjar's company 'LeadClock' provided 'ad-cloaking' software to defraud fake information and advertisements related to coronaviruses, cryptocurrencies, weight loss drugs, etc. At the same time, this caused users to see misleading advertisements on forums like the company's Facebook and Instagram. Facebook discovered this during a review of its automated process of ad review. For your information, let us tell you that ad-cloaking software is made to cheat the search engines of online companies. Using this, the user gets pseudo information instead of the information asked.

For your information, cloaking is considered an unethical technology.Facebook Director of Law Department Jessica Romero said in a statement that Gajjar of Thailand violated the company's advertised policy by using the name 'LeadClock'. "Google, Oath, WordPress, Shopify and other companies have also become victims of LeadClock." Its lava In this case, LeadClock's software was used to share misleading information about the pages of the global pandemic crisis, coronavirus, cryptocurrency, medicine, and fake news.

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