{"id":6688,"date":"2025-12-23T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:10:34","slug":"ftc-issues-warning-letters-on-consumer-review-rule-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/ftc-issues-warning-letters-on-consumer-review-rule-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC issues warning letters on Consumer Review Rule violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/12\/ftc-warns-10-companies-about-possible-violations-agencys-new-consumer-review-rule?utm_source=govdelivery&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawO2w8lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeW4Gpe1Y3MXtux7uL3O03jCbSnRS-45zlqUIvx68d3T7M5uwT8-DW-NSZazY_aem_ZqowE9tkHyPsycVteJJPRQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> Monday sent warning letters to 10 companies for potentially violating the Consumer Review Rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Consumer Review Rule, effective October 2024, prohibits the publication of fake or false consumer reviews, providing compensation or incentives for positive or negative reviews, operating a company-controlled review website, suppressing negative reviews, and using fake social media indicators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter sent to the companies, which were not publicly identified, stated the FTC had reason to believe they had violated the Consumer Review Rule and advised them to \u201cimmediately cease and desist\u201d the conduct. The FTC press release about the letters said non-formal determinations were based on consumer complaints and information provided by the companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFake or false consumer reviews are detrimental to consumers\u2019 ability to make accurate and informed choices about the products they are buying \u2013 something of particular importance during the holiday season,\u201d said Christopher Mufarrige, Director of the FTC\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a press release. \u201cAs consumers increasingly depend on online reviews, the FTC is committed to ensuring companies comply with this Rule.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violation of the rule can result in federal lawsuits and penalties of up to $53,088 per occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Trade Commission Monday sent warning letters to 10 companies for potentially violating the Consumer Review Rule.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,3,54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advocacy","8":"category-industry","9":"category-legislative","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}