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This is illegal right? Warner Bros. had an FTC settlement because they paid youtubers for video game reviews, and that fact wasn't disclosed by many of the yout
by Buge 9y ago
This is illegal right? Warner Bros. had an FTC settlement because they paid youtubers for video game reviews, and that fact wasn't disclosed by many of the youtubers.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/warner-bros-settles-ftc-charges-it-failed-adequately-disclose-it https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/warne...
- makomk 9y agoProbably is, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if parts of the press just didn't think the FTC rules applied to them. (I know they had to have sharp words with quite a few publications about actually following their rules on affiliate links, and that's a lot more publicly visible and easy to prove than the stuff alleged here.)