Adrian Weckler

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The Indo Daily · Graham Norton v Meta, and the age of unavoidable online deception · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, because there's a basic principle in Europe anyway with...

When these platforms started, they essentially got this blanket of not immunity, but near immunity from what you would normally think to be your right to take a legal issue with them, to sue them, let's say.

And that's based in all sorts of EU regulations and legislation.

I mean, the basic principle is we didn't create it, but we host it.

We're an intermediary.

That's the principle.

So if you're...

Take the case, for example, Marie McCallan.

She was subject to a huge number of these scam ads purporting to show her endorsing all sorts of cosmetics and face creams.

She had to go to the high court here to get that stopped, that process stopped, because Meta were...

using that we're an intermediary rationale, essentially to the extreme.

And they had other legal arguments, which they might say were fair ones.

But what you're getting at is right.

It's stacked against individuals legally.

So there are new laws, new regulations that are coming into place.

There are a few big ones that have come in from Europe in the last one or two years, and some of them are starting to bite and are starting to take an effect.

Yeah.

Because Facebook is treated like it's the internet.

Yeah.

So why can't you sue, for example, Vodafone or Air for carrying that defamation on their pipes to your phone?

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