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Lawyers are trying to scare you with Facebook ads
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1800" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/lawyers-are-trying-to-scare-you-with-facebook-ads-129264" target="_blank"><strong>Lawyers are trying to scare you with Facebook ads - The Conversation</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Some ads can be more than misleading – they can put your health at risk.</p><p></p><p>Last year, ads paid for by law firms and legal referral companies started cropping up on Facebook. Typically, they linked Truvada and other HIV-prevention drugs with severe bone and kidney damage.</p><p></p><p>But like a lawsuit, these assertions do not always reflect the consensus of the medical community. They also do not take into account the benefit of the drug or how often the side effects occur.</p><p></p><p>On Dec. 30, Facebook <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/following-backlash-facebook-disables-misleading-hiv-medication-ads-n1108741" target="_blank">said</a> it disabled some of the ads after more than 50 LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS groups signed an <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/open-letter-facebook" target="_blank">open letter</a> to Facebook condemning them for “scaring away at-risk HIV negative people from the leading drug that blocks HIV infections.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1800, member: 1"] [URL='https://theconversation.com/lawyers-are-trying-to-scare-you-with-facebook-ads-129264'][B]Lawyers are trying to scare you with Facebook ads - The Conversation[/B][/URL] Some ads can be more than misleading – they can put your health at risk. Last year, ads paid for by law firms and legal referral companies started cropping up on Facebook. Typically, they linked Truvada and other HIV-prevention drugs with severe bone and kidney damage. But like a lawsuit, these assertions do not always reflect the consensus of the medical community. They also do not take into account the benefit of the drug or how often the side effects occur. On Dec. 30, Facebook [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/following-backlash-facebook-disables-misleading-hiv-medication-ads-n1108741']said[/URL] it disabled some of the ads after more than 50 LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS groups signed an [URL='https://www.glaad.org/blog/open-letter-facebook']open letter[/URL] to Facebook condemning them for “scaring away at-risk HIV negative people from the leading drug that blocks HIV infections.” [/QUOTE]
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