Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued new guidance about product reviews on blogs and on testimonials in advertising. The rules are scheduled to go into effect Dec. 1, 2009, and they have disaster written all over them. I’m going to be writing here as if I thought the FTC really had a role in this [...]
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Critical guidance issued by the FTC
October 5, 2009 – 9:45 am
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it’s issued revised guidance on a couple of issues critical to the online world: Product reviews/endorsements by bloggers Testimonials in advertising/Celebrity endorsements These issues are tightly related in some ways. I’m still reading all in the info out there this morning, but I’ll have a much longer post [...]