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FTC Clamps Down on Website Sponsored Content

The Federal Trade Commission has just released an Enforcement Policy Statement regarding the use of “Deceptively Formatted” ads. In doing so, it may have beheaded the concept of sponsored content advertising with a single stroke.

Adam Brimer/Knoxville News Sentinel, via AP

Four Cancer Charities Accused of Pocketing $187 Million

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has joined attorneys general in every state in accusing four cancer charities, run by extended members of the same family, of lying to donors, collecting $187 million from 2008 through 2012, while spending only 3% of the total on helping actual cancer patients. The four charities are the Cancer Fund of America, the Breast Cancer Society, the Children’s Cancer Fund of America, and Cancer Support Services.