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Thai consumers’ council to sue Facebook
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The Thailand Consumers Council is preparing to file the country’s first-ever lawsuit against Facebook for failing to adequately protect people from fraudulent content on its platform.
Key facts
- The civil suit, naming Facebook, its parent company Meta and 16 other defendants, will be filed with the Civil Court on Monday, council secretary-general Saree Aongsomwang said on Thursday.
- Boonyuen Siritham, the council president, said that from 2024 to March 2026, the council had received 6,164 complaints about scams and 61% of them involved Facebook
- The Thailand Consumers Council is preparing to file the country’s first-ever lawsuit against Facebook for failing to adequately protect people from fraudulent content on its platform.
- The council first approached the social media company in November 2024, sending a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a number of specific recommendations for improving its fraud and scam prevention policies in Thailand.
- Statistics from the first four months of 2026 show that Thais lost 7.48 billion baht to online scams, with Facebook the main platform, according to the council.
Summary
The civil suit, naming Facebook, its parent company Meta and 16 other defendants, will be filed with the Civil Court on Monday, council secretary-general Saree Aongsomwang said on Thursday.
The council is representing 10 consumers who were victims of fraudulent activity originating on Facebook, with losses of 230 million baht.