Twitter Under Fire Over ‘Scam’ Ads

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TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp has slammed Twitter for allowing her face to be used to promote slimming pills on the social media platform.

Allsopp pointed to promoted tweets from an organization called GonaGram, which shared a fake news story claiming the presenter had been sacked by Channel 4. When readers then clicked on the link, it led them to a weight-loss promotion.

Allsopp told the BBC that after reporting the scam ads to Twitter, the social media platform ruled the GonaGram account was not in violation of its impersonation policy.

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