CNN Thursday October 12, 2023
Size doesn’t matter, in advertising: Wendy’s and McDonald’s have won lawsuit that accused the fast food chains of false advertising, notes CNN. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit brought against the two companies, which accused them of selling hamburgers smaller than those shown in advertisements and alleging the food didn’t look as appetizing in person as pictured on their menus. U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez ruled that the images in ads for Wendy’s and McDonald’s “are no different than other companies’ use of visually appealing images to foster positive associations with their products.”
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CREATIVE BLOQ Thursday October 12, 2023
Swedish photographer Annika Nordenskiöld’s black-and-white image or two women cradling each other—and an octopus—has won a competition that bills itself as the “world’s first” AI photo contest, notes Forbes. The image, titled “Twin Sisters in Love,” won the inaugural Prompted Peculiar International AI Prize at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, an Australian photography festival running through October 22. As Creative Bloq notes, the idea of the contest has stirred debate down under, and around the world.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Thursday October 12, 2023
Meta plans to charge users in the European Union a $14-a-month subscription to get an ad-free version of Instagram or Facebook on their phones, reports The Wall Street Journal. If E.U. users want the platforms on their desktops without ads, they’ll have to pay $17 a month. Meta’s plans for ad-free versions of its social media platforms is seen as a way to comply with the EU’s data privacy rules, adds PetaPixel: In July, the European Court of Justice ruled that Meta “cannot justify” the use of personal data to target consumers with highly personalized ads unless it gains their consent.
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David Schonauer Thursday October 12, 2023
When she broke into the fashion industry in the late 1960s as a model, Bethann Hardison -- "skinny, androgynous and darker-skinned than most other Black models of her day (and there weren't many) --
became one of a small group of runway pioneers," noted The Washington Post recently. Hardison went on to found the modeling agency Bethann Management and is now the subject of … Read the full Story >>
