10 Oct, 2024 FTC Examines Data and Advertising Practices of Streaming Services, Makes Key Recommendations to Address Concerns By Kate Patton A Federal Trade Commission staff report released last month and discussed during the last open meeting of the Commission examines certain...
13 Sep, 2024 FTC Open Meeting to Discuss New Reviews and Testimonials Rule and FTC's Inquiry Into Social Media and Video Streaming Services By Jeff Greenbaum Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan just announced the tentative agenda for the next open meeting of the Commission, which will...
22 Aug, 2023 FTC's New Endorsement Guide FAQs Provide Answers to the Questions You've Been Asking (And to Questions You Didn't Know You Had) By Jeff Greenbaum Earlier this summer, the Federal Trade Commission released its updated "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in...
07 Jul, 2023 Threads is Here! By Hannah Taylor Meta's new social media app, Threads, has launched! While over 70 million users have already signed up, and brands have joined the...
17 Mar, 2023 FTC Issues Orders to Social Media and Video Streaming Platforms to Provide Information on Their Advertising Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Asserting that fraud on social media is "surging," the Federal Trade Commission issued orders to eight social media and video streaming...
10 Feb, 2023 Facebook Further Limits Ad Targeting Options for Teens By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, Meta announced that it was taking further steps to limit the ways in which advertisers can target teens. Meta said that it...
27 Sep, 2022 California’s Newly Enacted Social Media Law Will Impact Some Companies’ Practices By Ariel Radow California recently enacted A.B. 587, a law that will require social media companies to publicly post and submit semiannual reports to...
20 Sep, 2022 Planning to Cook Your Chicken in Cold Medicine? FDA Issues Warning About Dangerous Social Media Challenges By Jeff Greenbaum The U.S. Food & Drug Administration just issued a warning about social media challenges that encourage people to misuse nonprescription...
12 Sep, 2022 You're Invited: "Global Advertising in an Age of Crisis and Change" By Jeff Greenbaum The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance will be holding its annual global advertising law conference on Thursday, October 13, 2022, in...
17 Mar, 2022 High School Softball Team's Tweet of Inspirational Passage Qualifies For Fair Use, Says CA5 By Brian Murphy We have met sports psychologist Dr. Keith Bell before. (See this post.) In 1982, Dr. Bell published Winning Isn’t Normal, a 72-page...
27 Jan, 2022 FTC Reports on Increase in Scams Initiated Through Social Media By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission said that, in 2021, consumers reported losing $770 million to fraud initiated on social media -- which is...
23 Jan, 2022 A New Social Media Watchdog in the Works? By Hannah Taylor Many know that advertising in the United States is policed by federal and state consumer protection agencies, including the Federal Trade...
21 Jan, 2022 FTC Tells Marketers to Stop Making False COVID-19 Treatment Claims By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission sent cease and desist letters to more than twenty marketers, ordering them to stop making false claims that...
12 Jan, 2022 Kim Kardashian and Others Sued for Crypto Promotion By Hannah Taylor Last summer, Charles Randell, the chair of the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority, gave a speech at the Cambridge International...
05 Jan, 2022 Should Brands Avoid Saying "Eat Ass" in Tweets? By Brian Murphy We (with the occasional exception here or there) ASSiduously avoid using salty language in our posts. We are nothing, if not clASSy....
06 Dec, 2021 Facebook Updates Its Policies on Social Issue Advertising By Chibundu Okwuosa Facebook recently updated its policies on social issue advertising based on feedback that its heightened requirements should not apply to...