FTC Releases Statement on Deceptive Internet Ads

The Federal Trade Commission unveiled its rules for how native advertising on the Internet has to look, spelling out what qualifies as deceptive and what doesn’t. The FTC’s “Enforcement Policy Statement on Deceptively Formatted Advertisements” is a wonky 16-page document that fundamentally affirms what the FTC has already said about deceptive advertising more generally.

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