TINA.org’s Year in Review 2023

Here’s what we accomplished in 2023 with your help.

FTC Brings the Hammer Down on Digital Altitude, Aspire

Agency files suit against seller of digital marketing business opportunity.

NourishLife revokes Speak claims after deceptive marketing practices exposed

Maggie Hennessy, Nutra-Ingredients USA

Herbalife

Lawyers to Pocket $5.25 Million in Unfair Herbalife Settlement

Consumer Group TINA.org Objecting MADISON, CONN. March 17, 2015 — Ad watchdog organization, truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org), filed a brief on Monday asking the court to reject the proposed settlement of a…

Fidelity and Life Guaranty Life Insurance

Ad Watchdog TINA.org Reports Herbalife’s Coronavirus Claims to FTC

MADISON, CONN. April 28, 2020 – Truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) has filed a complaint against multilevel marketing company Herbalife with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive claims that Herbalife products can…

Weeding Out Fairlife’s ‘Grass to Glass’ Promise

One of the phrases behind Coke’s new so-called supermilk may not mean what you think.

Will New U Life Finally Admit SomaDerm Doesn’t Contain HGH?

The MLM’s recent marketing changes suggest that it is ready to come clean regarding the product’s actual ingredients.

MLMs Continue to Recruit with Deceptive Earnings Claims

TINA.org investigation finds 98% of MLMs using misleading income claims.

TINA’s List

Readers have told us to look into these MLMs.

Influencers Defy FTC Rules on Disclosure Despite Warnings

TINA.org finds 95 percent of social media influencers previously put on notice by the FTC breaking the law.

Worst False Ad Settlements of 2019

TINA.org’s annual list of class-action settlements that left consumers out in the cold.

Rank Makers University

TINA.org digs into MLM coach’s marketing pitch.

Multilevel Marketing: The Day Job that Doesn’t Pay

More than 97 percent of DSA member companies use or have used misleading income claims.

Lifewatch Medical Devices

LifeLock’s Identity Theft Protection Services

2017 4Life Income Claims

Lifetime

Buyer beware: This “proud U.S. manufacturer” of basketball hoops makes some of its products in China.

Lifelock

As heard on Sirius XM:   Lifelock tells us that “Don” became the victim of identity theft and ran into trouble at home and at work. But Lifelock doesn’t mention…