The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) sues Facebook's parent company, Meta, over targeted fake crypto ads that have scammed Australians out of more than $100 million. The ACCC alleges the company engaged in false, misleading, and deceptive conduct by publishing scam ads featuring prominent Australians. In one instance, a victim lost $650,000 to a scam. Fake ads on Google and Facebook are the most efficient way for scammers to chase

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has lost more than half a trillion dollars in market value since its August 2021 peak. Half of that vaporized in a single day, the biggest drop ever in the global stock exchange history. Once the sixth-largest company in the world by market capitalization, Meta has fallen out of the top ten, replaced by two computer-chip makers, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the Chinese e-commerce company Tencent.

Meta Platforms saw its stock market value slump by more than $230B last week. A record daily loss for a US firm. Its shares fell 26.4% after quarterly figures disappointed investors. Meta also said that Facebook's daily active users (DAUs) had dropped for the first time in its 18-year history and fell to 1.929B in the three months to the end of December, compared to 1.930B in the previous quarter.

The London-based FCA-regulated EMI and payment processor Checkout Ltd d/b/a Checkout.com raised $1 billion in a recent share sale that valued it at $40 billion. New investors including Franklin Templeton and the Qatar Investment Authority participated alongside existing ones, such as Insight Partners and Tiger Global Management. Checkout is one of the big crypto-to-FIAT payment processors. It didn’t raise money from outside investors until 2019 but is one of the most valuable start-ups in the world.

FinTelegram reports on a $50 million crypto token scam that presents itself as the project of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Meta Platforms, Inc. is the new name of Zuckerberg's company that operates the world's largest social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, as well as the messenger service WhatsApp. Currently, the META Token is being sold via the Meta ICO website (https://meta-ico.com) with the logo of Zuckerberg's company and a picture of Mark Zuckerberg, labeled as the founder.