Worldwide: Social Media

On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") issued a Press Release announcing a "crackdown on deceptive drug advertising."

On September 3, 2025, in Golden v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC, No. 22-CV-9858, 2025 WL 2530689 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 3, 2025), Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss with prejudice for a media company on a claim that the company's use of website advertising technology on its website violated the Video Privacy Protection Act

Companies that engage influencers to promote their brands on social media face a growing risk of being sued for copyright infringement when those influencers...

The National Advertising Division (NAD) recently looked at a complaint over a social media video posted by an influencer.

Agendia made two posts on LinkedIn that linked to articles in which Dr. Nathalie Johnson touts Agendia's genomic test to evaluate early-stage breast cancer over Genomic Health's...

Did I mention that NAD has a lot to say about influencer disclosures? A new NAD SWIFT case (Report #7489) spotlights an issue that is not directly addressed...

Are social media influencers the new path for law firm advertising? Legal ethics rules once prohibited advertising until those rules were successfully challenged as violating the First Amendment.

Last year saw a proliferation of US state laws regulating the processing of children's data. 2025 promises to be just as active, with new rules either already in effect or coming into force...

On May 28, two "frenemy" social media influencers informed a federal court in Texas that they had settled a lawsuit in which one of them accused the other of infringing on her copyrighted social media posts...