{"id":16970,"date":"2016-03-15T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=16970"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:08:24","slug":"espn-outside-the-lines-on-advocare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/espn-outside-the-lines-on-advocare\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Outside the Lines on AdvoCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/advocare.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16972\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright wp-image-16972\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27191%27%20height%3D%27111%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20191%20111%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27191%27%20height%3D%27111%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/advocare.jpg\" alt=\"advocare\" width=\"191\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <em>The television segment has been pushed back, but <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/id\/14972197\/questions-surround-advocare-nutrition-empire-endorsed-saints-qb-drew-brees\">the article is out today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ESPN has been investigating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocarefacts.com\/\">AdvoCare<\/a>, a multi-level marketing company that sells a &#8220;business opportunity&#8221; using nutritional products as their hook. Today, ESPN&#8217;s investigative news show <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/otl\/\">Outside the Lines is running a segment in AdvoCare<\/a>, airing at 1:30pm Eastern time. The broadcast will be replayed on Sunday, March 20th at 9:30am Eastern time.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast must be good, because Advocare launched into damage control mode a few days ago. The company has posted a video that purports to be an excerpt from the interview, but it is clearly a self-promotional piece. They also are promoting the hashtag #AdvoStrong. on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with this broadcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minakimes\">ESPN the Magazine is publishing an article about AdvoCare by Mina Kimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please check out both the segment and the article, as they both help shine a light on the negative effects of multi-level marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The television segment has been pushed back, but the article is out today. ESPN has been investigating AdvoCare, a multi-level marketing company that sells a &#8220;business opportunity&#8221; using nutritional products as their hook. Today, ESPN&#8217;s investigative news show Outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184],"tags":[2092,2840,2841,2843,2842],"class_list":["post-16970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","tag-advocare","tag-advocarefacts","tag-espn","tag-mina-kimes","tag-outside-the-lines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-4pI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}