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title: Fashion Nova Sued Over Failure to Post Negative Reviews
date: 2022-04-22T00:00:00-04:00
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# Fashion Nova Sued Over Failure to Post Negative Reviews

 April 22, 2022 | 2 min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 [Kelley Drye Ad Law Access Podcast](https://soundcloud.com/adlawaccess "Kelley Drye Ad Law Access Podcast") · [Fashion Nova Sued Over Failure to Post Negative Reviews](https://soundcloud.com/adlawaccess/fashion-nova-sued-over-failure "Fashion Nova Sued Over Failure to Post Negative Reviews")

 [Apple](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fashion-nova-sued-over-failure-to-post-negative-reviews/id1457734764?i=1000558387321) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3k8fKv6P06QaYvxa2Ci7qd?si=d45dc46541d34caa) [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/adlawaccess/fashion-nova-sued-over-failure?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) 

 

In January, we posted that Fashion Nova had agreed to settle an FTC complaint alleging that the company’s practice of suppressing negative reviews on its site ​“deprives consumers of potentially useful information and artificially inflates the product’s average star rating” in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. According the FTC’s complaint, the company would automatically post four- and five-star reviews, but failed to post any review with a lower rating for about four years.

 

 

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