Existing law prohibits a person, firm, corporation or association, or any employee thereof, from making or disseminating in any advertising device, or in any manner or means whatever, including over the Internet, any statement concerning real or personal property or services, which is untrue or misleading, as specified.
This bill would prohibit an operator of a social media Internet Web site from engaging in the sale of advertising with a computer software account or user that performs an automated task, and that is not verified by the operator as being controlled by a natural person.