Conditioning consumers earlier than ever, mobile apps designed for kids 5 and below are brimming with ads -- a fair share of which are “misleading” and “manipulative.” That’s according to the ...

Meta's new chatbots could result in an increase in data collection, while also confusing young users by muddying the distinction between ads and content, Senator Ed Markey said this week in a letter ...

Perhaps it’s fitting that elections are held just days after Halloween. After all, the manipulative scare tactics and fear mongering of political ads that feature “scary voice guy” in a voiceover fit ...

Apps marketed to children 5 and younger deploy potentially manipulating tactics to deliver ads to children, raising questions about the ethics of child software design and consumer protection, ...

Online advertising on social platforms is changing. Google and Meta no longer hold majority control over advertising dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal, with Amazon and TikTok cutting in to ...

As adults in America, we are exposed to nonstop attempts to sway our purchasing decisions. Many of us have come to expect this, and are able to mount at least a small amount of resistance to these ...