Teenagers Say Gambling Addiction Risks Need More Publicity Casino Guardian Daniel Williams Pupils at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Salisbury, Wilts, have revealed that gambling operators have been literally bombarding them with ads. Some of the...
READ MOREMark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Transform Education. This Town Fought Back. Intelligencer Nick Tabor Last year, several classes in Cheshire, Connecticut’s elementary and middle schools switched to a new classroom model, where lessons were supposed...
READ MOREMeet the 9-Year-Old Telling You What to Wear The Wall Street Journal Ray A. Smith One of fashion’s “It” girls is actually a girl. Not a young woman. Not a teen. A girl. Giana, known to her 22,800 Instagram followers as Dear Giana, is a photogenic...
READ MOREOct. 5, 2018 Facebook Wants Instagram to Know Where You and Your Children Are At All Times – A Dangerous Precedent Statement of Kristen Strader, Campaign Coordinator, Public Citizen’s Commercial Alert Note: Published reports indicate that...
READ MOREPeople of color have the highest obesity rates in the US. Food marketing is part of the problem. Vox Nadra Nittle Think about the last time you saw a commercial for a “health” food — yogurt, Vitaminwater, orange juice. Chances are the star of the...
READ MORESnapchat rolls out self-serve shoppable ads globally The Drum John McCarthy Snapchat has rolled out self-serve shoppable ads to all advertisers, as it looks to up its e-commerce revenues with a multitude of updates. The move shows the company is...
READ MOREInstagram has a drug problem. Its algorithms make it worse. The Washington Post Elizabeth Dwoskin Instagram is known for its celebrity posts and photos of enviable vacations. But it has also become a sizable open marketplace for advertising...
READ MORELike the tobacco industry, e-cigarette manufacturers are targeting children The Washington Post Sarah Milov Last week, the Food and Drug Administration described teenage e-cigarette use as an “epidemic,” echoing the firsthand observations of...
READ MORESnapchat Is Partnering With Amazon to Test a Visual Search Tool AdWeek Marty Swant Snapchat is rolling out a new tool to let users identify objects in real life and then buy them on Amazon. The companies are announcing a partnership for a “visual...
READ MORENew Pressure on Google and YouTube Over Children’s Data The New York Times Sapna Maheshwari In the context of a growing national debate on tech and privacy, Google has come under increased scrutiny for how it may be tracking and targeting...
READ MOREWebsites of Kinder chocolate banned over ads targeting children The Guardian Rebecca Smithers A series of websites, an app and a YouTube channel promoting Kinder chocolate and toys have been banned in the UK for aiming junk food advertising at...
READ MOREWhy NASA’s next rockets might say Budweiser on the side The Washington Post Christian Davenport The constant creep of corporate America into all aspects of everyday life — from the Allstate Sugar Bowl to Minute Maid Park — may soon conquer a new...
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