Feb. 19, 2021 – On Feb. 18, four trade groups – the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Internet Association, NetChoice, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google – filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland stating that Maryland’s new digital […]
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July 6, 2020 – Bayer AG, Merck KGaA, Novartis, Pfizer and Vertex are joining other major advertisers in support of a July Facebook ad boycott (#StopHateForProfit), a campaign started by six civil rights organizations – the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color Of Change, Free Press and Common Sense – that calls on corporate advertisers to […]
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June 4, 2018 – The answer to the question of whether or not the presidency of Donald Trump has been good for the advertising business appears to mostly be a “yes,” according to 4As Executive Vice President of Government Relations Dick O’Brien, who spoke in Washington, D.C., at a recent session of the Coalition for […]
Read moreMarch 14, 2014 – The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) on Feb. 24 issued its first enforcement letter for promotional activities occurring on Facebook, according to a Digitas Health Regulatory Alert. The March 12 Alert states that OPDP sent an Untitled Letter to Institut Biochimique SA (IBSA) for a branded Facebook page for […]
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