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Meta Platforms, X threatened with legal charges in the Philippines over online scams

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( December 20, 2023, 07:40 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram as well as social-media site X, formerly known as Twitter, are being threatened with legal action in the Philippines over their failure to stop online scams. Alexander Ramos, the executive director of the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center, said the recently signed Internet Transactions Act now provides the government with a legal basis to go after these platforms. Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram as well as social-media site X, formerly known as Twitter, are being threatened with legal action in the Philippines over their failure to stop online scams. ...

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