$1.26 million for one Instagram post: the SEC crypto ledger
A running tally of the celebrities the SEC has charged over undisclosed crypto promotion, what each one paid, and the FTX defendants who mostly won.
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Tag: disclosure
The disclosure rules everyone is breaking
$53,088 per violation, a 5-0 vote, more than 700 companies already on notice - and, so far, not a single penalty judgment under the FTC's flagship fake-reviews rule.
Fyre Festival was a marketing case study before it was a crime
An orange square, 400 accounts, 95% of tickets gone in 48 hours. Billy McFarland got six years. No influencer was ever charged or found liable.
The laws that made retouching illegal, and why nothing happened
France, Norway and Israel criminalised undisclosed body retouching in advertising. Norway even specified the label to seven per cent of the image. Between them, they have produced no meaningful enforcement action at all.