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The United States federal government regulates advertising through the Federal Trade Commission [49] (FTC) with truth-in-advertising laws [50] and enables private litigation through a number of laws, most significantly the Lanham Act (trademark and unfair competition). Specifically, under Section 43(a), false advertising is an actionable civil ...
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The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines advertising as: . The placement of announcements and persuasive messages in time or space purchased in any of the mass media by business firms, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and individuals who seek to inform and/ or persuade members of a particular target market or audience about their products, services, organizations, or ideas.
However, false advertising and so-called "quack" advertisements became a problem, which ushered in the regulation of advertising content. In the United States, newspapers grew quickly in the first few decades of the 19th century, in part due to advertising. By 1822, the United States had more newspaper readers than any other country.
[29] See main article: false advertising. Issues with violence, sex and profanity. Sexual innuendo is a mainstay of advertising content (see sex in advertising), and yet is also regarded as a form of sexual harassment. [30] Violence is an issue especially for children's advertising and advertising likely to be seen by children. Taste and ...
The advertising book: The history of advertising in Ireland (MOL Books, 1986) Pinkus, Karen. Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (1995) Richards, Thomas. Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising & Spectacle, 1851–1914 ( 1990) 306 pp; Romano, Charlotte J. "Comparative Advertising in the United States and in France."
[3] [4] Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term fake news was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common. [5] [6] Nevertheless, the term does not have a fixed definition and has been applied broadly to any type of false information presented as news. It has also been used by high ...
In 1762, the Grand Assembly of Virginia enacted the following law to punish "divulgers of false news.". Be it enacted, That what person or persons soever shall forge and divulge such false reports, tending to the trouble of the country, shall be, by next Justice of the Peace, sent for, and bound over to the next County Court, where, if he produce not the author, he shall be fined two thousand ...