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Ad Watchdog TINA.org Petitions FTC for Made in USA Rule

Ad Watchdog TINA.org Petitions FTC for Made in USA Rule

MADISON, CONN. August 22, 2019– Consumer advocacy organization, truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org), filed a formal petition today requesting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) use its rulemaking authority to expand its enforcement…

Direct Selling Association is Honoring Ethics Code Violators According to TINA.org

Direct Selling Association is Honoring Ethics Code Violators According to TINA.org

MADISON, CONN. June 7, 2016–The Direct Selling Association (DSA), the national trade association for multi-level marketing companies, honors 22 companies that purportedly “serve as examples of direct selling at its…

Ad Watchdog Issues Warning about E-Cigarette Marketing

Ad Watchdog Issues Warning about E-Cigarette Marketing

Review Finds Widespread Problems MADISON, CONN. September 2, 2015 — Consumers eager to try out e-cigarettes need to be wary of the flood of questionable ad claims on the Internet…

Walmart.com Riddled with Deceptive Made in USA Claims

Walmart.com Riddled with Deceptive Made in USA Claims

Ad Watchdog’s Investigation Prompts Change MADISON, CONN. June 29, 2015 — Walmart is going all out for American manufacturing, pledging to buy billions of dollars in American products. But an…

Advertising of Supplement Targeting Seniors Questioned

Advertising of Supplement Targeting Seniors Questioned

TINA.org Joins with AARP in Objecting to Move Free Class-Action Settlement MADISON, Conn., March 12, 2015 — More than 46 million people suffer from arthritis, many of them elderly, and…

Consumers Getting Smoked by E-Cigarettes

Consumers Getting Smoked by E-Cigarettes

Impact on Health Not the Only Issue in Unregulated Industry MADISON, Conn., July 22, 2014 — Consumers curious about trying e-cigarettes are being swindled in droves by unscrupulous companies advertising…

MyPillow Subjected to Plenty of Legal Tossing and Turning

MyPillow Subjected to Plenty of Legal Tossing and Turning

Laura Northrup, The Consumerist

This unique business model is taking over retail –and customers are saying they hate it

This unique business model is taking over retail –and customers are saying they hate it

Mallory Schlossberg, Business Insider

A hot lingerie startup is drawing more fire for shady billing practices

A hot lingerie startup is drawing more fire for shady billing practices

Mallory Schlossberg, Business Insider

This lingerie startup isn’t so cute anymore

This lingerie startup isn’t so cute anymore

Lisa Fickenscher, New York Post

Customer disdain for this ‘innovative and disruptive’ business model is only growing

Customer disdain for this ‘innovative and disruptive’ business model is only growing

Mallory Schlossberg, Business Insider

Victoria’s Secret is ignoring a massive shift in the lingerie industry — and it could be costing them tons of money

Victoria’s Secret is ignoring a massive shift in the lingerie industry — and it could be costing them tons of money

Mallory Schlossberg, Business Insider

Repackaging deal benefits from cheap labor

Repackaging deal benefits from cheap labor

Matthew Hansen, Omaha World-Herald

MyPillow Has to Pay $1 Million For Making Phony Claims In Its Ads

MyPillow Has to Pay $1 Million For Making Phony Claims In Its Ads

Marlisse A. Cepeda, Woman’s Day

Full of Fluff? MyPillow Ordered to Pay $1M for Bogus Ads

Full of Fluff? MyPillow Ordered to Pay $1M for Bogus Ads

Herb Weisbaum, NBC News

Infomercial sleeper ‘My Pillow’ gets $1 million wake-up call over false medical claims

Infomercial sleeper ‘My Pillow’ gets $1 million wake-up call over false medical claims

Ben Guarino, The Washington Post

MyPillow Mogul Michael Lindell Sees Self in Donald Trump

MyPillow Mogul Michael Lindell Sees Self in Donald Trump

Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast

MN-based MyPillow fined $1M for deceptive ads

MN-based MyPillow fined $1M for deceptive ads

Kare 11

Regulators Drop Probe Into Walmart’s “Made In The U.S.A.” Labeling After Designation Dropped From Website

Regulators Drop Probe Into Walmart’s “Made In The U.S.A.” Labeling After Designation Dropped From Website

Ashlee Kieler, Consumerist

BBB revokes MyPillow accreditation

BBB revokes MyPillow accreditation

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