[mathgradthrow]

The correct way to protect children is to protect everyone. The correct way to protect everyone is to make advertising illegal, with penalties significant enough that it isn't profitable anymore.

If we, as a society, were to accept the reality that paying people for their endorsement is only ever used to achieve the effect of fraud without committing it, we could just eliminate paid endorsement.

Extraordinary technological progress has been made in laundering fraud and disinformation, but that technology costs money and therefore requires customers to operate. Eliminate the customers and the sickness they create will go away.