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by calgarymicro 1183 days ago
Technically there's a '#ad' in there, but the 'sharing what my friends just told me' bit probably didn't help her.

https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coinde...

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Honest question, given that it says ad — why would this be illegal?

Would the SEC claim that she was not good enough friends with the people who told her that to call them friends?

Not a lawyer, but my impression is that a lot of time such cases are decided on what a reasonable person might take away from the text rather than what the text literally says.
And not all things in a TV ad are non fiction. Is the basis that a real orange tiger is supposed to be licking mystery red dust off his finger