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by Retric
2316 days ago
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Advertising has specific legal limits on what is deceptive. You can say ‘worlds best’ because that’s considered a subjective and meaningless statement, but lying about objective facts gets you into hot water. For example, peanut butter is legally required to have been made from peanuts. |
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The wikipedia page says a "puff piece" is journalistic puffery. Neat, I hadn't made that connection.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery