Press & media

What we can comment on

We are available to journalists at short notice on the following. We answer specifically, on the record, and we say "we don't know" where that is the honest answer.

• Fake and incentivised reviews — how they are produced, sold and detected, and why detection rates are hard to verify from outside.
• Review-removal economics — what a business can actually get taken down on the major platforms, and what it costs them in time or money.
• The FTC Consumer Review Rule (16 CFR Part 465) — what it bans, what it does not, and what enforcement has looked like since October 2024.
• The UK DMCC Act 2024 — fake reviews as a banned practice, and the CMA's direct fining powers.
• EU Omnibus Directive and the Digital Services Act — verification-disclosure duties, and what the DSA Transparency Database shows about moderation of review content.
• German UWG § 5b(3) and Anhang Nr. 23b/23c — disclosure duties and the per-se ban on fake consumer reviews.
• Running a review platform without a paid-removal revenue line — the business-model consequences, honestly, including the ones that hurt.

We do not comment on individual disputes between a business and a reviewer, or on litigation we are not party to.