Breaking News: This Shouldn’t Be Advertised as Breaking News

Cable news appears to be redefining the meaning of breaking news and reaping ad dollars along the way.

Content Confusion in an Era of Fake News

Study demonstrates that effectively designed native advertising disclosures can decrease consumer deception.

Consumer News

Articles on TINA.org investigations and features, regulatory actions and more.

Masking Ads as News

The FTC has shut down multiple fake news sites.

Ad or Not? HuffPost’s ‘In the News’ Section

Selling cars among news stories makes for a blurred #ad line.

The Best Advertiser on Fox News Wants You to Buy Gold Coins Because Fake News Is Bad

Justin Peters, Slate

MLM News Alert

TINA.org’s curated list of MLM info and news of note.

Newsflash: News Sites Endorsing Diet Products May be Fake

Move over before-and-after shots.  Advertisers are now creating what appear to be legitimate news sites to shill bogus diet products.  Claiming that weight loss supplements (A magical fruit that is…

Fox’s Fake News And 6 Times Corporate Marketing Campaigns Went Wrong

Wayne Duggan, Yahoo! Finance

All Consumer Health News

This online advertisement takes you to www.allconsumerhealthnews.com, a website that indeed looks a lot like a consumer health news site. It is not. It is an advertisement, as disclosures at…

20th Century Fox Used Fake News to Publicize ‘A Cure for Wellness’

Liam Stack, The New York Times

Courier News Subscriptions

Allegations: Representing that consumers may cancel subscriptions any time before they automatically renew when subscribers may be billed subscription fees after they cancel

Why Is My Facebook News Feed a Hawker’s Alley for Leggings and Shady Health Supplements?

Kate Knibbs, The Ringer

Ad or Not? Memorial Sloan Kettering and WPIX 11 New York

‘Health news segment’ seems a lot like advertising.

The Latest

Pure Herbal Total Defense Immunity Blend

Latest coronavirus scam to land on TINA.org’s radar comes packaged as a fake Fox News article.

Somnapure: Wake Up to Sleep Aid’s Advertising

Why a dateline and a company quote doesn’t make a news article. Be wary of this sleep aid’s advertising.

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…

Can You Spot the Ad: The Atlantic

Just how many ads does this news report lead to?

TINA.org’s Year in Review 2019

It was another successful year outing deceptive marketing on multiple fronts.