U.S. mulling a probe of deceptive advertising on social media

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to vote next week on whether to send demands for information about deceptive advertising to eight social media and video streaming companies, the agency said on Thursday...

The agency did not say which social media companies would receive the demands but said that the information would be used to determine what steps they have taken to detect and remove deceptive advertising from their platforms...

Some of the biggest social media companies are Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp..

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