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A pattern is now emerging of the ASA rejecting complaints about social media campaigns for restricted products, such as HFSS and alcohol

When a company uses an influencer or other person to endorse the company's products, it's important that endorsement reflects the endorser's honest opinions, beliefs, or experiences with the products...

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled an enforcement action against Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. ("Warner Bros.") regarding an advertising campaign for its video game...

The growing use of social media has created challenges for federal securities regulators, who must enforce antifraud rules that were written at a time when the prevailing technology was the newspaper.

The growing use of social media has created challenges for federal securities regulators, who must enforce antifraud rules that were written at a time when the prevailing technology was the newspaper.

We're trying something new here at Socially Aware: In addition to our usual social-media and tech-law analyses and updates...

In this issue of Socially Aware, we examine the use of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to combat web scraping.

Tale of the tape

In this edition, we explore the threat to U.S. jobs posed by rapid advances in emerging technologies; we examine a Federal Trade Commission report on how companies engaging in cross-device tracking...

The Washington Post reported reasons to restrict use of smartphones from a German child psychology expert and adviser "Just as we protect children from alcohol or other drugs, we should also protect them from the risks...

Tumblr has updated its Community Guidelines so that "adult content" will no longer be allowed on the platform as of December 17, 2018.

Fox attorney Joshua Horn explained that social media is a great resource for marketing and business development, but not for a registered representative who was recently sanctioned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

On November 17, 2020, Twitter introduced Fleets, "a new way to join the conversation." Fleets are "fleeting" tweets; ones that disappear from an account after 24 hours.

Last week, Twitter updated its advertising policies to allow advertising that references the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the ad, which appeared in London's subways, features a picture of a crab explaining that the crab is selling its house on Zoopla.

Last August, my colleague Kelly O'Donnell blogged about a promotion that went terribly awry.

Trump's election was a shocking surprise to many–Democrats and Republicans alike. Explanations for the upset have ranged from the benign to the sinister.