On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) put hundreds of companies on notice that they will face steep financial penalties if they are found to be promoting or soliciting fake product reviews. The FTC’s action comes long overdue, as both businesses and...
A Holistic Approach to Addressing Online Attacks In this series on reputation management, we have previously discussed online defamation, revenge porn, and how to handle online attacks by an anonymous person. In this article, we will discuss the various tactics that...
Have you ever been the subject of a damaging news article? Before the internet, when a news article was published, it was circulated and then discarded, available for viewing only in library archives. In the age of the internet, news is now published online in...
Content that is defamatory, damaging, private, infringing, or otherwise unlawful can be removed from social media. There are a variety of tactics, both legal and non-legal, that are effective in securing the removal of harmful content. In the age of cancel culture,...
Finding negative online content about yourself is extremely distressing. This effect can be amplified if you don’t know the identity of the person targeting you. The internet has made it easy for people to voice their grievances anonymously through the use of...
Finding negative online content about yourself is extremely distressing. This effect can be amplified if you don’t know the identity of the person targeting you. The internet has made it easy for people to voice their grievances anonymously through the use of...