I recommend watching this youtube documentary about Bed Bath & Beyond memestock community it’s sad and fascinating and unfortunately all too familiar because this type of thing seems to be widespread.
Tag: fraudulent testimonial misrepresentation
Natural herd immunity debt misinfo inexplicably published in liberal media in November 2024.
The CDC warns that a respiratory illness preceding a case of walking pneumonia can increase the risk of severity. But Huffpost wants people to blame mask mandates from 3+ years ago.
The FTC under Lina Khan’s leadership is good for public safety and freedom from corporate authoritarianism.
FTC has been doing good things now for consumer issues, such as going after monopolies and the authoritarian rule of corporate monopolies, and (as I’ve mentioned before), they’re going to start penalizing “fake and false consumer reviews and testimonials” which has become a substantial problem.
We need a crackdown on MLMs (multi-level marketing)
Defeat the right-wing step 1 according to It Could Happen Here podcast…
Fraudulent Appeal to Authority. The tactic of citing sources that don’t actually back up a claim.
This ploy utilizes the halo effect, anchoring bias, the mere exposure effect, autopilot thinking, and informational learned helplessness. And it’s fraud.