Home > Drinks companies recruit minors as fans.

[Irish Medical Times] , Mudiwa, Lloyd Drinks companies recruit minors as fans. (23 Sep 2010)

External website: http://www.imt.ie/news/2010/09/drinks-companies-re...

Some drinks companies are deliberately flouting filtering software codes that were agreed by their industry and the Government in 2004 to prevent online marketing to minors, a lecturer in the School of Marketing at the Dublin Institute of Technology has claimed.

Pat Kenny told the ‘Have We Bottled It? Alcohol Marketing and Young People’ conference last week that while posing as a 15-year-old, he managed to join four of these brands’ fan clubs on the Facebook social media networking site...

 

Repository Staff Only: item control page