We all love Steve Wozniak, of that there is no doubt. And that’s why we were totally baffled by his latest occurrence: suing YouTube for a scam related to last week’s massive Twitter hack.
It is as tangled as it sounds. So it is better to recap. As we all know last week several official Twitter accounts were hacked and posted messages regarding a cryptocurrency scam.
Millions of dollars would have been stolen in this operation, but it turns out that Twitter was not the only site where this fraud was launched.
On YouTube, without hacking anyone, the same scammers launched deceitful channels, videos and posts where they posed as famous people in the media. Among them Steve Wozniak.
This would have angered the co-founder of Apple, as reported by Bloomberg, for which he would have directly sued YouTube for allowing the platform that the imposters used his name and image to impersonate him:
The scammers used Wozniak images and videos to convince YouTube users that he was hosting a live giveaway and that anyone who sent him bitcoins would get twice as much.
According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in state court in San Mateo. California County. But when users transferred their cryptocurrency, in an irreversible transaction, they received nothing.
The fraud route is the same
They are known to be the same ones who did the hacking on Twitter for the transfer addresses of the cryptocurrencies.
At the same time that while the accounts on the other social network on YouTube were intervening, they also made publications posing as Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
YouTube so far would not have responded to Wozniak’s demand to remove the fraud videos that still survive.
The main argument in this case, as in all similar cases, is that the legal responsibility belongs to the person who uploaded the video, not the platform.