What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads

A look back at 10 colossally painful advertisements.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford

"While some faulty campaigns were merely the victims of evolving scientific knowledge, many blatantly ignored facts in their race for the #dollar, using so-called experts to promote products terrible for public health, like #cigarettes. Revered professionals like doctors and scientists routinely told us precisely the wrong things to do, as they are likely still doing today."

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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-were-we-thinking-the-top-10-most-dangerous-ads?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#Advertising #FalseAdvertising #Chemicals #ChemicalIndustry #Capitalism #Oligarchy #Poison #DDT #Plastics #LeadPaint #Corporatocracy

Today In #FalseAdvertising

#EVs #ElectricVehicles are good in theory and friends say mostly good in practice too. Worth remembering #BuyerBeware advice and check around for real performance likely not what adverts from #Tesla or other companies say.

Tesla has been fined for #FalseAdvertising and exposed for misleading customers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/494785/tesla-s-secret-team-to-suppress-thousands-of-driving-range-complaints

Why do 99% of "seamless" socks sold on the Internet have visible seams in their photos? 😠 #FalseAdvertising #ActuallyAutistic

It makes it so much more difficult to find the ones that actually are seamless.

#cars #EV #falseAdvertising #Tesla #transportation
Wow. Another story about how garbage Teslas are. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

Jak jest grubo kruszonki to nie się nazywa KRUSZONIANKA, a nie jagodzianka.
#falseAdvertising

There's something a little off with these product descriptions.
#FalseAdvertising

@cestfleuve earlier today @sarahhbickerton asked why does women's clothing come in such inconsistent sizing, even in the same store? I agree with you both. And add #OneSizeFitsAll as all too often #FalseAdvertising!

PSA to #Base / #Telenet customers in #Belgium: Base seems to be pulling a sneaky trick with the data plans. They are counting 1.0gb as 1000mb, not 1024mb. So people are getting less data than they paid for. #falseAdvertising

Spread this far and wide to all website admins can know.

BelugaCDN are grifters. Their site is chalk full of landing pages and plan features lists touting their CDN can support anything but the moment you sign up you find out it can only origin pull from DNS and IP you own (no object storage CDN) they brag about supporting streaming, nope, you get told it's not after you pay. It also magically turns into comodo nucdn after signup too.

#scam #cdn #lies #falseAdvertising

#Roundup #Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in #FalseAdvertising Settlement
Roundup Manufacturers Had No Evidence for Claiming Its Weedkillers Were Safe
#Agrochemical giants #Bayer CropScience and #Monsanto violated a 1996 agreement to stop making false and misleading claims about the safety of its popular weedkillers, New York’s attorney general found.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15062023/roundup-weedkiller-settlement-neww-york-ag/

Dear GOG it’s real messed up you include “Trepang 2 Giveaway” in an email title to actually mean trepang 2 and giveaway.
#gaming #gog #falseadvertising

Box meals that claim to be ready in 10 minutes but don't include the time it takes to boil the water should be illegal in at least 35 of 50 of the 50 States in the US as well as DC, Puerto Rico and American Samoa.

#FalseAdvertising #FakeNews

Is this #falseAdvertising in #Belgium?

https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/media_attachments/files/110/491/256/551/289/667/original/b6e33162e9bf20ba.jpg

#Carrefour ran a 2 for 1 promo on coconut likely to get rid of surplus. And since it apparently failed, they marked every package 50% off. So I bought 2 packages. But I was charged 50% off each, thus the “1+1” promo became a lie.

This is a regular occurance at Carrefour. They likely have a policy against combining multiple promos, but they did not disclose that. The 50% off is not really a promo but more of a drop in market value of aging food.

#askFedi #Belgian #law

"The Best Plant Based Corn'd Beef Ever!" proclaimed the package...

🤢 :vomit:

#FalseAdvertising

Truth Social is neither.
#TruthSocial #FalseAdvertising #lies #misnomers

@NewsDesk

The article doesn't say how it would work though. They say who would oppose it. Guess who? #falseadvertising #sameoldarguments #payourbills

If a #Mastodon node decides to centralize itself in #Cloudflare’s walled-garden (e.g. like #fosstodon), the /about/ page should not be making this false claim: “Decentralized social media powered by Mastodon”

#falseAdvertising

If a #Mastdon node decides to centralize itself in #Cloudflare’s walled-garden (e.g. like #fosstodon), the /about/ page should not be making this false claim: “Decentralized social media powered by Mastodon” #falseAdvertising

Anker, your product packaging, for the A8380, lies about its capabilities. Apple, for performance issues, does not support dual HDMI over a single USB-C port on the MacBook Pro, nor on the MacBook Air. #Lies #FalseAdvertising #Anker #Apple #USBC #DualHDMI #HDMI