Companies Exploiting Socially-Networked Children to Push Junk Food Like Drug Dealers

Companies Exploiting Socially-Networked Children to Push Junk Food Like Drug Dealers

In response to recent bans on junk food advertising in the U.K., junk food manufacturers like Fanta, which is part of Coca-Cola, have found a loophole to the restriction. Producers are paying children the equivalent of roughly $40 a week to plug company products to their friends through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.