TAKEDOWN: Feds Move against Vemma

FTC alleges Vemma is a pyramid scheme and freezes assets.

Gerber Good Start Grow

Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as nutritionally appropriate for toddlers when they contain less protein and more added sugar and carbohydrates than recommended Misleadingly marketing Good Start Grow as distinct from…

Subaru’s Starlink

Allegations: Marketing that the Starlink system “helps keep you and your Subaru safe” and provides “safe and easy access to your favorite apps and content” when the system fails due…

Roblox Metaverse Playing Games with Consumers

TINA.org files complaint with the FTC concerning deceptive advertising on Roblox.

NBA Stars’ Sneaky Alcohol Ads

These players dropped the ball in their recent offseason announcements.

MyPillow

TINA.org investigated My Pillow, a Minnesota company that has sold millions of foam-filled bed pillows across the country, and found that the company was making deceptive and unsubstantiated disease-treatment claims…

NourishLife speak (Lifetrients)

TINA.org investigated NourishLife (which later changed its name to Lifetrients) and found that it was deceptively advertising a potentially harmful supplement called SpeechNutrients speak by, among other things, claiming it…

Plexus Worldwide

TINA.org investigated Plexus Worldwide, an Arizona-based multilevel marketing company that sells nutritional supplements and weight-loss and personal care products, and found that the company has used unsubstantiated disease-treatment claims to…

Great Value LED Light Bulbs

TINA.org’s Year in Review 2023

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

DSA Award Winners Are Ethics Code Violators

Why is this industry group honoring MLMs making illegal marketing claims?

Worst False Ad Settlements of 2018

Class-action settlements leave consumers behind.

SolarCity

SevenPoint2 & CEO Boreyko Violating FTC Order

Alkaline MLM’s health claims add up to FTC consent order violations.

Vemma Facing Judicial Inquiries in Europe

Nutrition supplement affiliate marketing company facing scrutiny overseas.

Red Bull Settlement: It’s NOT about the Wings

This proposed agreement is not as absurd as media coverage may have led you to believe.

eMug by eWater.com

Sometimes only one or two claims about a product seem suspicious. And then sometimes every single claim seems suspicious. The claims eWater.com makes about its eMug — only $84.50! —…

LG RESU Batteries for Homes

Allegations: Misleadingly marketing that batteries safely store energy to power homes when they are dangerous and have caused fires and property damage

TINA.org’s Year in Review 2022

Here’s what we accomplished in 2022 with your help.

Modere Exploiting Women’s Hormonal Health Issues for Financial Gain

New supplement line targets women with deceptive and illegal health claims.