Compliance Resources

The Impressum Section is Dead on Facebook

Updates as of 3/11/2024: The Impressum section has begun to be reintroduced and displayed on some Facebook pages. Users are still reporting issues...

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DOJ’s Settlement with Meta Highlights Regulators’ Increased Focus on Digital Redlining via Social Media Marketing

Those that do not heed the recent warnings from the federal level about Fair Lending do so at their peril. As an example of the lengths regulators...

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Understanding Targeted Ads on Social Media

It has been noted by military historians that victors of great battles in ancient history were often those who were able to solve the logistical...

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Facebook is Now Meta

On October 28th, 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook’s biggest change yet – Meta. A rebranding the likes of which we have never seen, Meta...

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Facebook: Personal vs. Professional

Social media - what once was a strictly personal space for interactions with friends and family has inevitably evolved into a bustling advertising...

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Facebook's New Business Pages & What That Means for Compliance

In 2007, Facebook began the rollout of the now well-known Business Page model, allowing businesses to harness the power of social media to increase...

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The Value of a Like - Are they RESPA Violations?

The social media landscape is perpetually changing and sometimes the regulations can’t keep up. Whether this is a good or bad thing for lenders...

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Dealing with Defunct Employee Social Media Accounts

As someone famous once said, fame is fleeting, but the internet is forever. This is just as true for businesses: employees come and go, as such is...

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Contests & Sweepstakes....and a Lawsuit?

Contest, sweepstakes, giveaways—they are all the same, right? Not exactly. While in our everyday language usage, we might use these terms...

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