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Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.

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[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought this was illegal in most countries

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

~~Which is why~~ they’re now under investigation from the FTC.

edit: FTC not FCC edit 2: looks like they're being investigated about AI, not ads.

[–] ZeroCool 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Which is why they’re now under investigation from the FCC.

Ummm, no, they aren’t. They’re under investigation by the FTC for their deal that allows Google to train AI on user content. The FCC is not conducting the inquiry and it has nothing to do with these ads.

It’s really annoying that people can just make things up and it gets upvoted because nobody actually reads the damn articles.