Groups Urge FTC to Act on Influencer Campaigns
Groups Urge FTC to Act on Influencer Campaigns
Ad Law Access
Gonzalo E. Mon
This week, four groups – Public Citizen, Commercial Alert, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, and the Center for Digital Democracy – sent a joint letter to FTC encouraging the agency to “investigate and bring enforcement actions related to the practice of non-disclosed advertising through influencer user profiles on Instagram.”
As we reported last month, paid endorsements are a big issue for the FTC, and press reports had suggested that the agency might soon “crack down on paid celebrity posts.” But the crackdown is coming fast enough for some. The letter asks the FTC to move “promptly and aggressively” in order to stop a problem that “has reached epidemic proportions” and is putting children at risk. Dramatic claims.
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