Facebook and Instagram. We first estimate advertising effectiveness at baseline across our broad sample. We then estimate the …

networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document … also find that after Facebook's ban on advertising by fake new sites, the sharing of fake news articles on Facebook fell by …

We use a unique dataset that combines information on advertising by subprime lenders and mortgages originated by them … from 2002 to 2007 to study the relationship between advertising and the nature of mortgages obtained by consumers. We … relationship between the intensity of local advertising and the expensiveness of mortgages extended by lenders within a given …

Our estimates indicate that exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a … better-educated individuals are more sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health …This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised …

The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be … countered. In this work, we show how online misinformation is largely financially sustained via advertising, examine how … misinformation. First, we find that advertising on misinformation outlets is pervasive for companies across several industries and is …

to launch interventions via advertising campaigns on social media. Despite this ubiquity, little has been known about …