Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has launched criminal proceedings against social media giant Facebook for breaching Australia’s anti-money laundering laws, and for failing to deal with clickbait advertising for cryptocurrency. Forrest has launched two simultaneous actions, one in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia and the other in the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo. It is alleged that Facebook was criminally reckless for not taking sufficient steps to stop criminals from using the social media platform to send scam advertisements to defraud Australians. Such scam advertisements, which used the image of Forrest and other celebrities, have appeared on Facebook since March 2019. Forrest claims to have asked the tech giant on many occasions to prevent his image from being used in the scams, including an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in November 2019. “I’m doing this because I’m concerned about innocent Australians being scammed through clickbait …