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  2. Puffery - Wikipedia

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    A particular use for puff pieces may be in health journalism. Providers of alternative medicine may be unable to make claims due to laws against false advertising, but they may be able to place stories and testimonials with journalists who can write as they wish under press freedom laws. Recruiting health journalists to write puff pieces may be ...

  3. False advertising - Wikipedia

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    False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, distributing or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally, or recklessly, to promote the sale of property, goods or services. [3]

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject Skepticism/List of questionable claims

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    The first, claims of exaggerated, misleading, or unfounded assertions that real growth hormone treatment slows or reverses the effects of aging The second is the sale of products that fraudulently or misleadingly purport to be growth hormone or to increase the user's own secretion of natural human growth hormone to a beneficial degree. Solid ...

  5. Predatory advertising - Wikipedia

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    For example, a claim is made that the product is a much "better" alternative to a similar product, but there is no metric for "better." Atypical statements or claims, which cite results of product utilization that fall well outside of the normal outcome. For example, a diet pill company claims you can lose up to 30 pounds in one month, when the ...

  6. A Moment of Truth for Truth in Advertising: How Far Can ...

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  7. Brand blunder - Wikipedia

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    A similar claim has been made for the "Coke adds life" slogan, with the target market listed as anything from Taiwan to Thailand [67] to Japan. [ 68 ] Coca-Cola : The name Coca-Cola rendered phonetically in Chinese can sound like the words for "bite the wax tadpole" ( simplified Chinese : 蝌蚪啃蜡 ; traditional Chinese : 蝌蚪啃蠟 ...

  8. Tesla must face California's false-marketing claims ... - AOL

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    By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A California administrative judge rejected Tesla's bid to dismiss claims by a top state regulator accusing the automaker led by billionaire Elon Musk of overstating ...

  9. Atrocity propaganda - Wikipedia

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    Accounts of Irish atrocities during the Rebellion of 1641 are now dismissed as propaganda, but led to real massacres. [11]In a sermon at Clermont during the Crusades, Urban II justified the war against Islam by claiming that the enemy "had ravaged the churches of God in the Eastern provinces, circumcised Christian men, violated women, and carried out the most unspeakable torture before killing ...