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Basant Gajjar used «cloaking», a technique that hides the true content of ads and presents something different on the surface for users on the platform, wordpress which prevented Facebook’s review process from identifying improper ads, wordpress plugins the company said.
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Gajjar’s unregistered business in California, LeadCloak, has been offering cloaking services since 2016, targeting firms including Alphabet Inc’s Google, woocommerce Oath, wordpress plugins and nulled Shopify Inc, wordpress themes Facebook said.
Reuters could not immediately reach Gajjar for woocommerce theems a comment.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S.
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