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The complaint charges that Simon Lerviev pretends to be the son of Israeli businessman Lev Leviev and harms the good name of the family and its privacy, despite the fact that he has no connection to the family.
Simon Leviev, better known by his off-putting pseudonym 'The Tinder Swindler,' is being sued by the family he claimed to be a part of when scamming women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars using the dating app.
Shoshanna Solomon is The Times of Israel's Startups and Business reporter In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Despite Israel’s small media market and relative lack of clout, it could benefit from moves by larger nations to force Facebook and other social media giants to pay for content, local experts say, predicting that it could “piggyback” on legislation likely to come out of Europe. On Tuesday, Facebook climbed down from its ban on ne...
Simona Weinglass is an investigative reporter at The Times of Israel. Illustrative: People protest in front of the Facebook office in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski) In the face of faltering revenues and a tidal wave of layoffs, journalism outfits in Israel and around the world are now looking to an unlikely savior: Facebook, the same social media behemoth that has desiccated vital ad streams and left the news business in what many experts describe as a global crisis. In the United Kingdom, Facebook plans to begin to pay news outlets to feature their stories on ...