{"id":6800,"date":"2017-09-16T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T23:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/16\/social-media-stars-face-crackdown-over-money-from-brands\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T23:26:40","slug":"social-media-stars-face-crackdown-over-money-from-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6800","title":{"rendered":"Social media stars face crackdown over money from brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram \u2018influencers\u2019 told to clarify paid-for ads, while health claims are taken down after advertising breaches Consumer protection bodies in the UK and US are increasing their crackdown on Instagram \u201cinfluencers\u201d, in an attempt to rein in the big business being done covertly on social media.Instagram\u2019s popularity with young people, and women in particular \u2013 in April it reported 700 million members \u2013 has led to a roaring trade between marketers and so-called influencers with large and engaged followings. Members of the Kardashian family, who promote a range of products from \u201cdetox\u201d tea to waist-training corsets to their tens of millions of followers, can reportedly command as much as $500,000 (\u00a3370,000) per post. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/16\/social-media-stars-face-crackdown-over-money-from-brands\" target=\"_blank\">Social media stars face crackdown over money from brands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram \u2018influencers\u2019 told to clarify paid-for ads, while health claims are taken down after advertising breaches Consumer protection bodies in the UK and US are increasing their crackdown on Instagram \u201cinfluencers\u201d, in an attempt to rein in the big business being done covertly on social media.Instagram\u2019s popularity with young people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}