Martin Lewis has dropped a campaign lawsuit against Facebook after the social network agreed to donate £3 million to Citizens Advice and set up a new scam advert prevention project.

Mr Lewis said he was now calling on Google and Yahoo to "stand up and take responsibility" for similar scam adverts on their platforms.

"I believe they're not even giving us a direct contact at the moment," Mr Lewis said of Google, "we're just having to go through the normal reporting channels that everybody goes through even though I am a major target of scam ads." 

Mr Lewis previously announced his intention to sue Facebook for defamation in a personal capacity in a groundbreaking lawsuit, following a raft of scam...