The FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabber, an 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 FTC says Sitejabber “deceptively” punched up businesses’ review counts by incorpor