I know this applies to certain traditional print publishing and television broadcasting as well as I think to cable broadcasting. But does it apply as well to the internet? I don't know, but I know that that on YouTube, I frequently have to sit through ads that make clearly false claims about consumer goods. I'm talking about ads that claim that certain pills or supplements will cause you to lose more weight than a well known drug, etc. Maybe their lawyers are just clever, helping them skirt legal requirements by advancing claims that are perhaps defensible is not concrete claims, even though the potential consumer would think they were.

But I see so many howlingly false ads everyday, that I wonder if maybe the internet isn't covered by truth-in-advertising laws.

But then, in the conservative world today, truth has sort of a weird meaning. Facts aren't facts; knowledge and expertise are to be distrusted rather than valued.

I don't know. It's a dark world we live in right now.