Britain’s ‘Money Saving Expert’ Sues Facebook Over Fake Crypto Ads

[kreslik.news]

Martin Lewis, an English financial journalist and “consumer champion,” is suing Facebook for defamation after the site ran ads for cryptocurrency-related “scams” that featured his face. Lewis is also known as “Britain’s Money Saving Expert.”

“Within the last year, the social media site has published over 50 fake Martin Lewis adverts which are regularly seen, likely by millions of people, in the UK,” Lewis said. “The most prevalent are get-rich-quick schemes currently titled ‘Bitcoin Code’ or ‘Cloud Trader’, which are fronts for binary trading firms based outside the EU.”

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