Companies have struggled in recent years to reach potential customers while making sure their online ads do not appear close to dubious, salacious or potentially harmful content. AARP, which was mentioned in the NewsGuard report as one of the companies that had placed ads on sites promoting false election claims, said that, despite rigorous monitoring […]
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The Wall Street Journal had reported on aspects of the draft complaint earlier. The swell of recent antitrust cases filed against Google and Facebook has cast a spotlight on lucrative deals among Big Tech. In October, the Justice Department sued Google and homed in on an agreement with Apple to feature Google as the preselected […]
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Days after the storming of the Capitol, many American companies, including AT&T, Dow, Airbnb and Morgan Stanley, tried to distance themselves from the political violence by announcing that they would stop giving money to the 147 Republican members of Congress who objected to certifying the election results on Jan. 6. MyPillow, a bedding company run […]
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Unfortunately, ultra-processed foods aren’t as readily condemned as tobacco. While we know that nicotine is addictive and that cigarettes deliver a range of carcinogens, there are many ways (yet no single way) that the standard American diet increases the risk of other causes of premature death. The interactions among calorie intake, exercise, fat accumulation, insulin […]
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Quibi was the biggest bust of the streaming boom. But it has something Roku wants — more than 100 original programs. Quibi, which announced that it was closing six months after a much-hyped introduction, is in talks to sell its content to Roku, the streaming device maker with a streaming app of its own. The […]
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Dr. Greenland echoed that assessment, stating that “the marketing of coconut oil is confusing. It’s trying to sell it as a healthy fat, but those who know its composition don’t think that at all.” These and other experts part company with advertisers and advocates for coconut oil based on its chemical makeup and the well-established […]
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Ms. Young’s ideas were not the only revolutionary thing about her. At the time, most employers offered severance packages to pregnant women, on the assumption that once they gave birth, they would never return to work. When in 1963, expecting her first child, she insisted otherwise, Grey Advertising had to invent its first maternity policy. […]
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The recruiting pitches are strikingly familiar: Character-building and leadership opportunities for girls await in time-honored scouting programs. But in a filing in federal court last week, the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. said this wasn’t its recruitment message, but that of a rival organization — the Boy Scouts of America — that it accused of […]
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With a pandemic raging, a spate of ads promised dubious remedies in the form of lozenges, tonics, unguents, blood-builders and an antiseptic shield to be used while kissing. That was in 1918, during the influenza outbreak that eventually claimed an estimated 50 million lives, including 675,000 in the United States. More than a century later, […]
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Tamu McPherson, one of the original street-style stars and a former editor of Grazia Italia, has 319,000 followers on Instagram. For years, many have watched her pose in immaculately styled outfits at runway shows, glittery parties and on vacation. During the fashion weeks in September 2019, Ms. McPherson, who was born in Jamaica and lives […]
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“Who the heck consents to having a company track them across the internet,” she remembered thinking. “They could only do it because they had monopoly power to do something that clearly goes against consumer interests.” After leaving the ad world in 2017, she spent the next year researching and writing a paper on why Facebook […]
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Facebook grew to be one of the world’s largest companies by gathering up large quantities of personal data and auctioning them off to advertisers. Now that Apple is posing a threat to that business, Facebook has embarked on a quixotic marketing campaign against its rival that it says is really about saving small businesses. It’s […]
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The F.B.I. found one in the junk drawer at the Santa Monica hide-out of the notorious mobster Whitey Bulger, which goes to show that gangsters are just like everybody else. There’s probably one or two clipped to your car’s visor, and there could be a pile in the lobby of your building right at this […]
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For years, signs of discord have brewed between Facebook and Apple. Their chief executives, Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, have periodically taken thinly veiled shots at each other. “If they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried,” Mr. Cook said of companies […]
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It seemed like money well spent, when Sabra paid millions to book a 30-second slot for the 2020 Super Bowl. For one thing, the game drew an audience of 99.9 million, meaning it delivered on its promise of getting the hummus brand’s name before a broad public. Then there was the ad itself. Unlike so […]
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Many snack foods including Oreos have thrived during the pandemic, as consumers deal with the stress and boredom of isolation. “Definitely snacking has been one of the stories of Covid,” said Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry analyst at NPD Group. “Not just any old snack foods, but we saw a shift to more […]
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The police in Mumbai on Sunday arrested the chief executive of a right-wing television news broadcaster on suspicion of manipulating ratings figures, escalating a clash that has roiled India’s voluble but increasingly partisan media scene. The police said they had arrested Vikas Khanchandani, the chief executive of ARG Outlier Media, at his home in Mumbai, […]
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The federal government has sued a Los Angeles County telemarketing company that officials said had reaped $7 million by making false promises of work-from-home opportunities to female viewers of Spanish-language television stations, exploiting their economic insecurity — and later, their worries over the coronavirus pandemic. The company, Moda Latina BZ, made false representations in television […]
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For television viewers, the holiday season means commercials filled with rosy-cheeked Santas, computer-generated polar bears and brand-new cars festooned with big red bows. This time around, at the close of a hard year, the annual advertising blitz includes stark reminders of the coronavirus pandemic mixed into the usual images of shopping sprees and festive cheer. […]
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The concept of “blood” and “bleeding” is generally avoided in mass marketing for period products. It was only recently, and with some fanfare, that commercials showed red liquid being absorbed, instead of blue. But when it comes to period underwear — an increasingly popular type of underwear made with extra-absorbent fabric — it’s difficult to […]
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MEXICO CITY — Tiger cubs and semiautomatic weapons. Piles of cash and armored cars. Fields of poppies watered to the sound of ballads glorifying Mexican drug cartel culture. This is the world of Cartel TikTok, a genre of videos depicting drug trafficking groups and their activities that is racking up hundreds of thousands of views […]
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Dena Dietrich, the kindly face and fearsome power of Mother Nature to American television viewers in the 1970s, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 91. The death was announced by SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union. Ms. Dietrich was in her early 40s in 1971 when she filmed the first of the television commercials that […]
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With coronavirus cases on the rise and communities returning to lockdown across the country, a marketing push is underway to persuade skeptical Americans to immunize themselves once vaccines are ready. The federal government, which has sent mixed messages about a pandemic that has caused more than 250,000 deaths nationwide, is not leading the charge. Instead, […]
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BuzzFeed plans to acquire HuffPost, the two companies announced on Thursday, in a deal that would join a pair of digital-media giants that have found themselves searching for readers and revenue as they have fallen prey to some of the same difficulties that once afflicted old-media properties. HuffPost will become part of its onetime rival […]
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“Our shields are worn. Our resolve is being tested.” So say the most immediate, frontline health care workers in a new ad campaign as the coronavirus pandemic rages across the United States, breaking records nearly every day for deaths — and cases — in state after state. The campaign, in print and video, by about […]
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A West Virginia man was indicted on Tuesday on federal charges that he sold machine gun conversion devices to hundreds of people, including antigovernment extremists in the Boogaloo movement and the person accused of fatally shooting two law enforcement officers this summer in California, prosecutors said. The man, Timothy John Watson, 30, of Ranson, W.Va., […]
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HONG KONG — “Slim.” “Beautiful.” “Rotten.” “Extra Rotten.” “Rotten to the Core.” Those were the size descriptions for women’s clothing, ranging from small to XXL, that a Taiwanese chain, RT-Mart, slapped on a chart measurements in one of its superstores in China. It set off a furor this past week in a country where fat […]
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In September, the model and actress Emily Ratajkowski published an essay describing, among other injurious experiences, being sexually assaulted by a photographer named Jonathan Leder when she was 20. For years afterward, Ms. Ratajkowski wrote on The Cut, nude and seminude Polaroids from that shoot have been shown in galleries and republished without her permission. […]
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As with so many things, the pandemic has altered the way we see color, and specifically, what colors we do — and do not — want to surround ourselves with while bunkered down at home. Some color trends have accelerated during the pandemic. Other long-popular shades are suddenly all wrong. “There is a huge wave […]
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