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The Majority of Influencer Advertising Is Undisclosed

Daniel Ershov, Yanting He, Stephan Seiler. 2025. VoxEU Column, CEPR.

Abstract

This CEPR VoxEU column summarizes evidence that most sponsored influencer advertising on Twitter is not disclosed, discusses the scale of hidden sponsorship, and explains why disclosure rules can miss most sponsored content consumers encounter.

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