How to Detect Ads Disguised as News Stories | Be MediaWise

Sometimes commercials for products are packaged to look like news stories to create an imaginary need that often requires an expensive product to fix it. And sometimes science is manipulated to scare you into buying those products. The Federal Trade Commission reported that people lost more than $1.2 billion to fraudulent ads on social media in 2022. Students will learn how to figure out when a “news story” might really be an ad for a product in this Be MediaWise lesson.