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Thanks for the tl;dr

Probably candidates and influencers should disclose if they are being paid. After all once you are getting paid, you ARE in the advertisement business.

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I think that’s fair. But they should do that for all their peddling.

We kind of have that in Germany regarding Youtube and promotional content ("Schleichwerbung" in German, literally "sneaky/sneaking ads"). The problem is that rules are vague so you get endless "this video contains ads"-infos even for those that don't because producers want to be on the safe side when they talk about or show a product. That diminishes the value of the message, because "it's on every video, whatever", just like people react to cookie consent banners.

If you make it too narrow, he'll gift them plane tickets, if you make it to wide, is google giving you free hosting on blogger already something you need to disclose on every post?

I guess the old adage “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” applies...

Ah yes, the California Bind.

The influencers did say it was sponsored by Bloomberg. Most IG people will use the #ad to indicate it's an ad. Some don't.

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