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The FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews

The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabberan online review platform, with violating its new fake reviews rules by using point-of-sale reviews to misrepresent what customers think about products. In one of its first enforcement actions under new rules banning companies from making or selling fake reviews, the FTC is ordering the company to stop. The […]

Politics

Hearing is set on effort to stop $1M-a-day sweepstakes from Elon Musk PAC that is backing Trump

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge is holding a hearing Thursday in the city prosecutor’s bid to shut down Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk’s political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, filed suit Monday to stop the America […]

Technology

Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk to stop $1 million election lottery

As reported previously by CNN and the Philadelphia Inquirerthe lawsuit argues that all lotteries in Pennsylvania must be run by the state and calls the arrangement deceptive, saying that “Though Musk says that a winner’s selection is ‘random,’ that appears false because multiple winners that have been selected are individuals who have shown up at […]