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Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/21/brands-using-ai-generated-influencers-to-promote-products-on-social-media #AiArtificialIntelligence #Instagram #Technology #Meta #Computing #Advertising #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority #Media #ConsumerAffairs #Money

Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media

Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency

The Guardian

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial]May 20

‘Chicken wine’ TikTok advert banned for saying drink can give 'emotional support'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chicken-wine-tiktok-advert-banned-37184724

Chewie May 13

"Ads for British beef and milk banned following Chris Packham complaint"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/chris-packham-british-asa-b2975409.html

#GoVegan #FalseAdvertising #ASA #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority #CarbonFootprint #ChrisPackham #AHDB #Beef #Milk

Ads for British beef and milk banned following Chris Packham complaint

Packham complained that the ads were misleading as they did not reflect the full environmental impact of British meat and dairy.

The Independent

World news | The Guardian Apr 14

Lidl and Iceland ads are first banned under new UK junk food rules https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/15/lidl-iceland-ads-uk-junk-food-asa-instagram-daily-mail #FoodDrinkIndustry #Advertising #Lidl #IcelandFoods #Business #Supermarkets #RetailIndustry #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority #Media #UkNews #Health

Lidl and Iceland ads are first banned under new UK junk food rules

ASA rules ads on Instagram and Daily Mail website broke ban on promoting items high in fat, salt and sugar

The Guardian

JdeBP Mar 12

I just saw a #Mulvad VPN advertisement on #YouTube that gave me the impression that London, and the U.K. government, were censoring its advertisements.

I did some digging, and this is misinformation. No regulator censored anything. Not the government, nor #Ofcom, nor the #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority, were involved at all.

#Clearcast, a private organization owned by some of the telly channel companies, which works with advertisers pre-broadcast, had some questions and rejected the initial advert copy that was sent over. And the tale as told even by Mulvad itself doesn't have Mulvad even answering them before it went off in a sulk to YouTube crying 'government censorship'.

One of Clearcast's questions, I read, was what rape, murder, and paedophilia had to do with #VPNs such that they ought to be in a telly advertisement. Given #TomScott's long battle with misleading VPN advertising, that seems like a fair question to be asking.

https://clearcast.co.uk/what-we-do/

#AdvertisingStandards