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    Should Google and Facebook refund victims of scams?

    Feb 16, 2022 2 minutes

    ou’ve got to hand it to Google, Facebook and the other tech giants - they never miss an opportunity to make money. Between 2019 and 2021 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) paid more than £1.1m to websites for adverts warning the public about scams they might encounter on those very same websites. Yes, that’s correct: Google and co got money from both scammers the scammers.

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