Think “cures,” “reverses,” “detoxes,” or “doctors don’t want you to know,” attached to something with a price.

1. Report it to the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. The FTC polices deceptive advertising, including health claims.
2. Report it to your state’s consumer protection office. Find your state below.
3. If the product claims to treat, cure, or prevent a disease, also tell the FDA through its Report a Problem page.

Free products, affiliate links and discount codes that earn them a cut, and paid “ambassador” deals all count as a connection that has to be disclosed. The FTC says the disclosure has to be hard to miss and sit with the post itself. A hidden #ad buried in a pile of hashtags, or “sp” and “collab,” is not enough.

1. Report it to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
2. Use the platform’s own Report option on the post.
3. Creators: read the FTC’s plain guide, Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers.

Doctors’ payments from drug and device companies are public in the Open Payments database. There is no database like that for influencers. The disclosure in the post is all you get.

Made up reviews, paid reviews that pretend to be independent, and bought followers can all break FTC rules.

1. Report it to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
2. Report the review or account on the platform where you saw it.

1. Tell your doctor or pharmacist first. They may need to know, and they can help you report.
2. Report the reaction to the FDA through MedWatch. It covers medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, and many other products.
3. For a dietary supplement, stop using it and report through the FDA’s Safety Reporting Portal.
4. For a vaccine, report through VAERS, the national vaccine safety reporting system.

These reports feed the safety monitoring that keeps going after a product reaches shelves. One report is not proof the product caused the problem. Many reports together are how patterns get spotted.

Prescription drugs without a prescription, injectable “research use only” products sold for people, and pills claiming to be approved medicines when they aren’t.

1. Report the website or seller to the FDA through its Report a Problem page.
2. Report the account or listing on the platform.

No product, no payment, just a claim. In the United States, that is protected speech, and no agency will take a complaint about it. That is on purpose: whoever gets to decide what counts as “misinformation” can change with every election.

• If the post breaks the platform’s own rules, you can report it there.
• If it’s someone you love, start with a question, not a correction. The Take Back Skepticism page shows how.
• Send the claim to Root to Rx, where a clinical researcher walks through what the evidence actually says.