{"id":1303,"date":"2021-04-28T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:04:01","slug":"facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook allows advertisers to target children interested in smoking, alcohol and weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant gave organisation behind a page for Australian 13- to 17-year-olds option to run alcohol, smoking and gambling ads for as little as $3<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is allowing businesses to advertise to children as young as 13 who express an interest in smoking, extreme weight loss and gambling for as little as $3, research by the lobby group Reset Australia has found.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation, which is critical of digital platforms, set up a Facebook page and advertising account under the name \u201cOzzie news network\u201d to see what ad options Facebook would provide through its Ads Manager platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/28\/facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8e2d239fd8307d3e99634032cc6fdd4271b61024\/0_145_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e8af8512b9739ed2e1fcd91ba4a2c1ef\" title=\"Facebook allows advertisers to target children interested in smoking, alcohol and weight loss\" \/>Social media giant gave organisation behind a page for Australian 13- to 17-year-olds option to run alcohol, smoking and gambling ads for as little as $3<br \/>\nFacebook is allowing businesses to advertise to children as young as 13 who express an interest in smoking, extreme weight loss and gambling for as little as $3, research by the lobby group Reset Australia has found.<br \/>\nThe organisation, which is critical of digital platforms, set up a Facebook page and advertising account under the name \u201cOzzie news network\u201d to see what ad options Facebook would provide through its Ads Manager platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant gave organisation behind a page for Australian 13- to 17-year-olds option to run alcohol, smoking and gambling ads for as little as $3 Facebook is allowing businesses to advertise to children as young as 13 who express an interest in smoking, extreme weight loss and gambling for as little as $3, research &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/facebook-allows-advertisers-to-target-children-interested-in-smoking-alcohol-and-weight-loss\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook allows advertisers to target children interested in smoking, alcohol and weight loss<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}