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This article is about misleading content in advertisements. For other uses, see False advertising
(disambiguation).
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] A false advertisement can be
classified as deceptive if the advertiser deliberately misleads the consumer, rather than making
an unintentional mistake. A number of governments use regulations or other laws and methods
to limit false advertising.
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An 1889 newspaper advertisement for "perfectly harmless" arsenic complexion wafers (app.
lacking tansy and pennyroyal herbs) claims that "a few days' use will permanently remove all" of
a wide variety of skin imperfections.[1] Arsenic was known during the Victorian era to be
poisonous.[2]
Types of deception
Puffing
Neurological deception
Regulation and enforcement
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