Federal Trade Commission

Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl Web Sites Used Illegally to Spy on Kids

Keith GirardSeptember 13, 2016

Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl and other top toy brands with their own Internet web sites were allowed by top toymakers to be used illegally to spy children under the age of 13 on behalf of marketers and advertisers, a sweeping investigation has discovered. Viacom, Mattel, JumpStart Games, Inc. and Hasbro are among the companies caught in the crackdown....

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Kim Kardashian, Celeb Social Media Shillers Finally Face Fed Crackdown

Keith GirardAugust 6, 2016

Kim Kardashian, her sisters and scores of other celebrities are finally facing a federal crackdown for shilling products over social media to unsuspecting fans without disclosing they are being paid, sometimes significant sums, to make the pitch. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching the crackdown. ...

CELEBRITIES

Justin Bieber Hypes Sketchy Diet Doctor’s ‘Miracle’ Body Building Drug

Keith GirardJanuary 7, 2015

Justin Bieber has taken another turn down the low road by getting into bed with shady celebrity diet doctor Carlon Colker. Bieber has been hyping Colker’s latest “miracle” supplement Myo-x, to his 59 million Twitter fans. In a tweet today Bieber wrote: “Myo-x supplement helped me with my workouts thanks Carlon Colker.” Bieber is taking a page out of Kim Kardashian’s playbook. The reality television personality routinely hypes products, including diet pills, to her unsuspecting Twitter fans....

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