It\u2019s fine to say aspartame is safe \u2014 but not to obscure that you\u2019re being paid to do it. | Photo by Long Wei\/VCG via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The first rule of sponsored content: You have to tell people it was paid for. It\u2019s fine to say aspartame is safe \u2014 but not to obscure that you\u2019re being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130336-the-ftc-warns-influencers-to-disclose-when-theyre-paid-to-be-sweet-on-aspartame-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nToday, the Federal Trade Commission publicly admonished over a dozen health influencers for publishing videos on TikTok and Instagram about sugar and the artificial sweetener aspartame without disclosing that the posts were paid for by the American Beverage Association and The Canadian Sugar Institute…
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