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FTC Announces Crackdown On Fake News Sites Selling Weight Loss Products
by Frank Watson, Search Engine Watch Blog
April 19, 2011
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by Frank Watson, Search Engine Watch Blog
April 19, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission announced a major crackdown against a number of sites using the appearance of a news site to promote acacia berry weight loss products. "The FTC seeks to permanently stop this misleading practice and has asked courts to freeze the operations' assets pending trial," the FTC website stated.
Ten websites "that are meant to appear as if they belong to legitimate news-gathering organizations, but in reality the sites are simply advertisements aimed at deceptively enticing consumers to buy the featured acai berry weight-loss products from other merchants" were being sued by the FTC.
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