At a rally for Trump in November, Kennedy said, “One of the things I’m going to advise Donald Trump to do in order to correct the chronic disease epidemic is to ban pharmaceutical advertising on TV.”
Elon Musk, who has gotten closer and closer to Trump postelection, has backed Kennedy’s position. In November, Musk posted a message saying, “No advertising for pharma.”
Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission commissioner, told radio show host and former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch that his agency would support a ban on pharmaceutical television advertising.
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The FCC is in charge of regulating radio and television and enforces communications laws. Currently, it’s legal to market prescription drugs on television. However, the FDA recently passed new rules that mandated simple and consumer-friendly language
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