{"id":4917,"date":"2022-03-02T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/watchdog-bans-london-tube-floki-inu-cryptocurrency-ad-campaign\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:37:36","slug":"watchdog-bans-london-tube-floki-inu-cryptocurrency-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/watchdog-bans-london-tube-floki-inu-cryptocurrency-ad-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog bans London tube Floki Inu cryptocurrency ad campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisements named after Elon Musk\u2019s dog allegedly took advantage of consumers\u2019 naivety<\/p>\n<p>The UK advertising watchdog has banned a London underground campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/17\/advertising-watchdog-investigates-tube-adverts-for-floki-inu-cryptocurrency-elon-musk-dog\">Floki Inu<\/a>, a cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1444840184500129797?s=20&amp;t=_zl2Yo3ALTEWFUzUFP2O7Q\">named after a dog owned by Tesla chief Elon Musk<\/a>, for allegedly taking advantage of naive consumers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/19\/bitcoin-falls-30-after-china-crackdown\">unaware of the potential dangers<\/a> of investing in digital crypto assets.<\/p>\n<p>The poster campaign featured an image of a cartoon dog wearing a Viking helmet and encouraged consumers who may have missed out on making money from other successful cryptocurrencies, such as Dogecoin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/may\/26\/time-to-buy-bitcoin-adverts-banned-uk-asa\">to join the investment craze.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/02\/watchdog-bans-floki-inu-cryptocurrency-campaign-on-london-tube-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6dbb3bc6ef3f7919061d2f412cea6e8243947fa4\/0_86_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2b6ed53e93bc5201f059db2c7ec2f222\" title=\"Watchdog bans London tube Floki Inu cryptocurrency ad campaign\" \/>Advertisements named after Elon Musk\u2019s dog allegedly took advantage of consumers\u2019 naivety<br \/>\nThe UK advertising watchdog has banned a London underground campaign for Floki Inu, a cryptocurrency named after a dog owned by Tesla chief Elon Musk, for allegedly taking advantage of naive consumers unaware of the potential dangers of investing in digital crypto assets.<br \/>\nThe poster campaign featured an image of a cartoon dog wearing a Viking helmet and encouraged consumers who may have missed out on making money from other successful cryptocurrencies, such as Dogecoin, to join the investment craze. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisements named after Elon Musk\u2019s dog allegedly took advantage of consumers\u2019 naivety The UK advertising watchdog has banned a London underground campaign for Floki Inu, a cryptocurrency named after a dog owned by Tesla chief Elon Musk, for allegedly taking advantage of naive consumers unaware of the potential dangers of investing in digital crypto assets. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/watchdog-bans-london-tube-floki-inu-cryptocurrency-ad-campaign\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watchdog bans London tube Floki Inu cryptocurrency ad campaign<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4918,"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\/4917"}],"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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}