FTC's Proposed Social Media Marketing Regulations Target Bloggers

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FTC's Proposed Social Media Marketing Regulations Target Bloggers
Search Engine Watch
April 10, 2009

If the Federal Trade Commission has its way, bloggers and social network users will soon be liable for their reviews of businesses and products. New regulations would allow them to be sued for anything they write that would be false.

Supposedly, these new regulations would be restricted to "pay-per-post" content, but I'm sure lawyers will find a way to target all content.

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