I don’t see how this is legal, but people on Tik Tok peddling miracle “medicine” are becoming more common every day. No FDA approval, no research. Just their marketing hype and false promises. This one, lady is showing some sort of probiotic and claiming it can help people suffering from severe acid reflux and gastrointestinal reflux disease or GERD, replacing medicine that has been tested for decades.

  • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
    62·
    8 days ago

    We’re getting dangerously close to social media apps where you scroll through ads and only ads. Maybe we’re already there…

    • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      8 days ago

      My Facebook and Instagram are now >3/4 stuff that I didn’t follow. Not all are explicitly advertisements, but they aren’t things I wanted to see. That’s why I’m moving to federated services. Just wish I could convince more of my friends and family to move over. I use Lemmy as a replacement for Reddit so it’s more widely social, but the other stuff I only really used for friends, family, or special interest groups.

      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        Man am I glad I killed my FB back In 2012 when it was mostly pictures of peoples babies and people acting like hating Obama was a personality trait

    • cheers_queers@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      i stopped using Instagram not long after realizing every 3rd post was an ad, and most of the actual content were not from people i followed. i don’t miss it.