Meta urged by state AGs to control weight reduction drug advertisements
Greater than three dozen state attorneys basic are urging Meta to higher implement its insurance policies to thwart a “surge of deceptive” pharmaceutical and wellness advertisements for weight reduction medication on Instagram and Fb. And the state officers additionally need the corporate to take extra measures to stop synthetic intelligence-generated content material within the advertisements.
In a letter to Meta, they cite firm insurance policies indicating pharmaceutical advertisers are presupposed to share details about the medical effectiveness and affordability of their medicines and goal solely adults. The state officers additionally cited insurance policies that say well being and wellness advertisements mustn’t push a “good” physique kind or present side-by-side comparisons.
But Instagram and Fb are “replete with advertisements that battle with these insurance policies,” the bipartisan group of attorneys basic wrote in their letter to the corporate. Additionally they complained that the platforms mislead customers concerning the dangers of compounded variations of the wildly common weight reduction medication.
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