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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Josie Clarke

Children ‘routinely bombarded’ with ads for appearance-changing products online

A young girl looking at her mobile phone (Alamy/PA) -

The Children’s Commissioner has called for an urgent end to advertising on social media to children after finding they are being “routinely bombarded” with products that claim to change their bodies and appearance.

Dame Rachel de Souza said children were routinely exposed to harmful appearance-changing products online, including weight loss injections, skin lightening products and steroids.

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