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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

‘Sexual’ Temu online shopping adverts banned by UK authority

Temu is a fast-growing tech business whose advertisements can appear online via Google Ads.
Temu is a fast-growing tech business whose advertisements can appear online via Google Ads. Photograph: Timon Schneider/Alamy

Five adverts for the Chinese shopping app Temu have been banned in the UK for their sexualised nature, with one found to have been irresponsible in how it depicted a young girl to sell bikinis.

The company has been warned against presenting under-18s in a sexual way in future or portraying adults as “stereotypical sexual objects” after several ads featured “disembodied images of the women wearing tight and revealing clothing”.

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