The Federal Trade Commission banned businesses from writing and buying their own reviews in an August ruling. Now, it's ...

Artificial intelligence-enabled product review platform Sitejabber agreed to a 10-year compliance monitorship with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following allegations that it inflated product ...

Americans shouldn’t accept a reality where their phones are sleeper agents for stalkers and fundamentalist politicians.

The FTC alleged that social media companies have engaged in "vast surveillance" and privacy violations. In a 2023 lawsuit, ...

Perhaps counterintuitively given Republicans’ laser focus on the US border, Project 2025 recommends abolishing the Department ...

“Fake reviews not only waste people’s time and money, but also pollute the marketplace and divert business away from honest competitors,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said about the rule in August. She added ...

An FTC rule banning phony online reviews is now in effect. Those who violate the measures face a civil penalty of up to ...

The FTC warned Lyft in October 2021 that its practices were illegal, and it must stop — but it continued them, and the result is this order and penalty. Of course, $2.1 million is a drop in the ...

However a new FTC ruling that just went into effect might’ve taken the teeth out of review bombing’s bite. The ruling is specifically attacking fake reviews, meaning it intends to incentivize ...

The social media platform backed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey now has more than 13m users. Bluesky, one of the main social media alternatives to X, has bagged $15m in Series A financing.