Banned medicines still sell through Facebook and TikTok adverts

EU PERSPECTIVES - A weight-loss jab bought through a social media advert can contain the wrong drug, the wrong dose, or no active ingredient at all. Fake medicines now reach Europeans through the same feeds as holiday photos. Every advert earns the platform money, and the tools to stop it already sit in EU law. Read more

The rules exist, says Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi. Enforcing them is another matter / Photo: Fred Marvaux (European Parliament)