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Bloggers’ Reviews of Products and Services: Honest Opinion or Thinly-Veiled Advertising and Commercial Endorsement?

Bloggers’ Reviews of Products and Services: Honest Opinion or Thinly-Veiled Advertising and Commercial Endorsement?

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued its “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.” The guideline, last updated in 1980, covers regulations on ‘what celebrity endorsers can say and how advertisers can use research claims.’ The same guideline is now being applied to comments on or reviews of products [...]
UK combats the spread of radical Islam in its territory

UK combats the spread of radical Islam in its territory

The UK has decided to change its strategy against terrorism and radical Islam at a time of increasing dissolution of the central Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The country will now combat the spread of Islamist ideology in its territory, among British Muslims, by education, discussion, and counter-propaganda. Under the new strategy developed by the government [...]