Fraudulent Advertising Act of 1916
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The Fraudulent Advertising Act of 1916 forbade businesses and advertisers to make deliberately misleading and fraudulent statements
about the goods they were selling within the District of Columbia.
False advertising
False advertising or deceptive advertising is the use of false or misleading statements in advertising. As advertising has the potential to persuade people into commercial transactions that they might otherwise avoid, many governments around the world use regulations to control false, deceptive or...
about the goods they were selling within the District of Columbia.