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Magic Tavern Inc
Three paid-for Meta ads for a mobile app game were socially irresponsible and likely to cause serious or widespread offence, including by normalising, condoning and making light of domestic violence, abusive relationships, and bullying, by objectifying women and by presenting gender stereotypes in a way that would like...
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Gorgeous Shard Puzzle Studio
An in-game ad for a mobile game app was socially irresponsible and likely to cause serious and widespread offence, including by objectifying and sexualising women and featuring a harmful gender stereotype.
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Colgate-Palmolive (UK) Ltd
A TV ad for Sanex shower gel was likely to cause serious offence by featuring a racial stereotype.
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Inkitt GmbH t/a Inkitt
An in-app ad was not appropriately targeted and contained scenes that condoned sexually violent behaviour and were likely to cause serious and widespread offence.
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Diesel SpA t/a Diesel
A paid-for ad featuring Katie Price was irresponsible and likely to cause serious offence by objectifying and sexualising women.
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air up GmbH
A paid-for TikTok ad was irresponsible and likely to cause serious or widespread offense.
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GreenPixel Ltd t/a Hotel Merge Empire
An in-game ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offence, including by condoning domestic violence.
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Cloud Whale Interactive Technology
An in-game ad was socially irresponsible, likely to cause serious or widespread offence and was irresponsibly targeted
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Whaleco UK Ltd t/a Temu
An in-game ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offence.
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Belle Baby Ltd
A website, which featured a product listing for a swimsuit, included an image of a child portrayed in a sexual way.
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Wahed Invest Ltd
Six posters which appeared on the TfL network caused serious offence by featuring images of burning US dollar and Euro banknotes.
Rulings
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