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What if ghost jobs were illegal? The Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act (TJAAA) makes it real.

Introduced in 2025, it bans ghost listings, forces salary transparency, and limits ads to 90 days. “The TJAAA establishes clear, enforceable standards to ensure that job listings represent genuine hiring intent.” https://www.issuewire.com/new-federal-legislation-proposed-to-end-ghost-jobs-and-restore-integrity-to-the-hiring-process-1836081656082620 The bite: Fines up to $200K per fake listing Must disclose salary, start date, visa status, AI screening use, and repost history $5,000 …

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CBS is advertising “No Kings” protest merch as if they are business partners.

"No Kings" day merch for sale on Amazon, Temu and other e-commerce siteshttps://t.co/mJ4GFS0PnO — CBS News (@CBSNews) June 14, 2025 CBS News is helping them fundraise now! This is NOT journalism. pic.twitter.com/rcbXiBBdyH — Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) June 14, 2025 🚨 WTF: CBS is advertising "No Kings" protest merch as if they are business partners. The …

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Subway Hit with Class-Action Lawsuit Over “Misleading” Meat Advertising

Subway faces a new class-action lawsuit alleging that its advertising grossly misleads consumers about the amount of meat in their sandwiches. Anna Tollison, a Queens resident, claims that her Steak & Cheese sandwich contained 200% less meat than advertised. Filed on behalf of New York consumers, the lawsuit seeks damages for all affected New Yorkers …

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Google Faces New Advertising Technology Antitrust Trial

One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology. The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintains a monopoly over the technology that matches online publishers …

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Time Magazine Lays Off 22 Staffers Amid Advertising Pullback, Restructuring

View post on imgur.com Time magazine is cutting 22 roles across departments, including editorial, technology, sales & marketing and Time Studios. In a memo to staff announcing the layoffs Tuesday, Time CEO Jessica Sibley cited business challenges, including lower advertising budgets, competition and shifts in consumer behavior, and a shift to focus on higher growth …

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Google is laying off hundreds of employees in its advertising sales team

Google is laying off several hundred employees in its advertising-sales team, Business Insider has learned. The search giant plans to cut hundreds of roles from its advertising-sales unit as part of a restructuring, Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, told staff Tuesday in a memo. Schindler wrote that the cuts were the result of changes …

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Second Major Automaker Opts Out of Super Bowl Advertising… General Motors (GM) and Stellantis Take a Stand.

via Yahoo: ““In light of this assessment, we will not be participating in the Big Game this year,” they added. The Jeep manufacturer is the second company to make this decision. General Motors (GM) said in November that it would nix advertising during the big game, according to Reuters. The outlet also reported that Stellantis …

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Media industry hit by holiday layoffs as outlets downsize amid advertising volatility. Journalism job cuts rise 48%.

via Yahoo: The media industry has been rocked this holiday season by news of newsroom layoffs as outlets downsize to combat volatility in advertising, after an already-brutal year of job cuts. In the last month alone, Condé Nast, G/O Media, Vice Media and Vox Media have all cut staff, most of whom already had layoffs …

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Breaking: Apple to pull all advertising from Twitter

Apple will PAUSE advertising on X as Elon Musk backtracks on agreeing with anti-Semitic post: PR guru says billionaire is on ‘career deathwatch’ Musk sparked a firestorm when he agreed with a post that claimed Jewish people ‘promote hate against white people’ Jewish rabbis and activists called on Apple, Google Amazon and Disney to stop advertising on …

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Burger King hit with class action for overstating size of Whopper by 35% (this is the way – hitting corporations with lawsuits for deceptive advertising)

Burger King is being sued in a proposed class action lawsuit by customers seeking at least $5 million each after the fast food giant is claimed to have portrayed their Whopper burgers as 35% larger in advertisements. Customers in the action have accused the fast food giant of showcasing the burgers with ingredients that ‘overflow …

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