B
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$51,744
$51,744 -- civil penalty per violation for FTC fake reviews rule (2024)
The FTC rule banning fake reviews carries civil penalties of up to $51,744 per violation.
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$51,744
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Currency Usd
Data Vintage
2024
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B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
FTC
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Tier B
https://www.realworklabs.com/blog/how-to-flag-and-remove-inappropriate-google-reviews ↗
Source Article
How to Flag and Remove Inappropriate or Fake Google Reviews
You open Google one morning and there it is: a one-star review from someone you have never heard of, describing a job you never did, for an address that is not in your service area. Your stomach drops. Your rating just fell from 4.8 to 4.5, and you know what that means: fewer calls.
This happens mor…
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Methodology
FTC rule effective October 2024
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Industrymarketing
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FTC fake reviews rule: $51,744 civil penalty per violation. Source: FTC (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ftc-fake-review-penalty-2024
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