Eddie McGuire tells Kyle and Jackie O why he’s suing Facebook

Kyle Sandilands was recently caught up in a fake news scandal where he was said to have started a bitcoin company, and now Eddie McGuire has found himself in a similar situation.

The Hot Breakfast host spoke to Kyle and Jackie O on KIIS 106.5 Breakfast this morning about recently finding out that his image had been used in a fake advertisement for viagra.

The ad was promoting him as an ambassador for erectile dysfunction medication called TryVexan, and suggested McGuire had promoted the product on Dr. Phil.

“A couple of Collingwood people rang me up as well and said ‘have you seen this’ and I hadn’t at that stage,” he told K and J. “This was just on Sunday and then it took off yesterday.

“Part of it’s come through some mob in Panama and then through a web based site out of New York City. So people have gone through a bit of trouble to muddy the waters on this.”

People called @eddiemcguiretv to tell him they'd seen the ad on FB pic.twitter.com/Zwwr44L50s

— Kyle and Jackie O (@kyleandjackieo) April 23, 2018

“The legal team down here, Gordon legal in Melbourne, they’re all over it and in fact they’ve rung me this morning and the QCs are lining up so we’re in,” he continued.

“I think now that Zuckerberg has got up in front of Capital Hill last week and started to take some responsibility for what Facebook has been doing, people are starting to jump on it and say enough’s enough and we’re not going to get bullied by this anymore.

“Facebook, they’re a massive international company and if they’re going to head down a news highway, well you’ve got to play by the same rules as everyone else.”

'Enough is enough' @eddimcguire on FB ad scam pic.twitter.com/ww7qcdRwcn

— Kyle and Jackie O (@kyleandjackieo) April 23, 2018