{"id":570,"date":"2020-05-11T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=570"},"modified":"2020-05-11T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:30:55","slug":"federal-trade-commission-acting-against-unreliable-coronavirus-marketing-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/11\/federal-trade-commission-acting-against-unreliable-coronavirus-marketing-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Trade Commission Acting Against Unreliable Coronavirus Marketing Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic has caused illnesses, deaths, isolation and tremendous economic disruptions. Not surprisingly, many people are feeling desperate for solutions, and unfortunately, they can fall prey to misleading coronavirus marketing claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to prevent these marketing practices. Indeed, the FTC recently sent ten warning letters to multi-level marketing companies (MLMs) telling them to remove and address claims that the MLMs or their participants are making regarding the supposed ability of products to prevent or treat the coronavirus or about the alleged ability of people to recoup lost income.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/ericjsinrod.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Sinrod<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2020\/05\/11\/ftc-clamps-down-on-unreliable-coronavirus-marketing-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris TechLaw Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic has caused illnesses, deaths, isolation and tremendous economic disruptions. Not surprisingly, many people are feeling desperate for solutions, and unfortunately, they can fall prey to misleading coronavirus marketing claims. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to prevent these marketing practices. Indeed, the FTC recently sent ten warning letters to multi-level marketing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/11\/federal-trade-commission-acting-against-unreliable-coronavirus-marketing-claims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federal Trade Commission Acting Against Unreliable Coronavirus Marketing Claims&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[763,226,227,762],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-false-claims","tag-federal-trade-commission","tag-ftc","tag-misleading-marketing"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}