Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
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Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
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#2Not surprising. If sponsored content is a signifier of success, people will fake it.
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#3News at 11.
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#4Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen.
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#5Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen.
Sounds very difficult to regulate. It's not actually advertising, so what regulations are people actually breaking?
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#6Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen.
> Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen
I don't see a problem. Users want influencers backed by brands. Brands want influencers with lots of users.
Unless the influencer falsely represents their sponsorship history to a brand, this "hack" doesn't hurt anyone. The worst-off party are users. They follow someone they think is shilling products but is actually shilling themselves. Given this is Instagram, I don't see that as a huge problem.
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#7Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen.
You mean FTC (T=Trade).
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#8Well, on a positive note, since they pay for those products themselves, they can write off the cost from their taxes.
#thot_patrol
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#9Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen.
> Smells like an FCC regulation waiting to happen I don't see a problem. Users want influencers backed by brands. Brands want influencers with lots of users. Unless the influencer falsely represents their sponsorship history to a brand, this "hack" doesn't hurt anyone. The worst-off party are users. They follow someone they think is shilling products but is actually shilling themselves. Given this is Instagram, I don…
Most of the time this doesn't hurt anyone, but let's say for the sake of argument that one of these influencers isn't a mildly attractive middle-class teenage girl with thoughts that don't extend beyond family friendly fun and self-enrichment.
Let's say instead you have a 25 year old man who started out with inspirational instagram posts have slowly started to cross the line into far-right slogans and maga hats. Now you don't just have some randomer endorsing your product, suddenly your family friendly business is being accused of been forking money over to neo-nazis.
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#10Will this ultimately lower the revenue from sponsored content if so many people are tripping over themselves to pay companies to post their content?