Facua has urged Facebook to remove from its portal advertising for pseudo-slimming products and other advertisements that violate current legislation and the social network's own advertising rules. It has requested this in a complaint sent to the California-based company.
The Association warns that advertising of this type of product is prohibited by Royal Decree 1907/1996, of August 2, on advertising and commercial promotion of products, activities or services with a purported health purpose, which states that "any type of direct or indirect, massive or individualized advertising or promotion of products, materials, substances, energies or methods with a purported health purpose that suggest specific slimming or anti-obesity properties is prohibited."
Furthermore, the website advertises other products bc data america whose advertising is also prohibited by consumer protection regulations. In this regard, Facua points out that the website distributes fraudulent advertising, incurring in misleading advertising according to the General Advertising Law, which in its article 4 defines as “misleading advertising that in any way, including its presentation, induces or may induce its recipients into error, which may affect their economic behaviour, or harm or be capable of harming a competitor. Advertising that omits fundamental data on goods, activities or services is also misleading when such omission misleads recipients.”
For example, an advertisement for a well-known clothing store appears offering a gift voucher worth 500 euros and when the user clicks on the link they access completely different content, specifically a subscription service for downloading content for mobile phones.