Last month the FTC passed a new bidding that requires bloggers to provide disclosures whenever there could be hidden interests or unspoken bisases related to any and all recommendations.
Here’s a post from Tim Ferriss author of The 4 Hour Work Week. So let this serve as my public notice.
“If I interview someone and they grab the bill for lunch, I would need to specify this, as I would if I use an Amazon link that gets me 8 cents instead off an Amazon link that gets me 0 cents. If someone gives me a comfy t-shirt with a logo and I wear it in a photo, ditto. Disclaimers all over.
This would be tedious for me and a continual eye sore for readers. But rules is rules. To cover my ass and preserve your reading experience, please assume that, for every recommendation, link, and product I use, the following all hold true:”
(Illustrations courtesy of Louis Gray and Jeannine Schafer)