{"id":17771,"date":"2018-07-07T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2018-07-07T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T20:00:33","slug":"new-from-regulator-watch-flavor-spam-fake-anti-vaping-comments-flood-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/17771","title":{"rendered":"NEW FROM REGULATOR WATCH &#8211; Flavor Spam | Fake Anti-Vaping Comments Flood FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a bitter battle to destroy vaping, bad actors have spammed over 255,000 fake \u2018anti-vaping\u2019 comments into the system overseeing the public consultation process for FDA\u2019s proposed rulemaking on the Regulation of Flavors in Tobacco Products. Regulations that could include: restrictions on flavors or an outright flavor ban.<\/p>\n<p>FDA sources tell RegWatch; the spammed entry of over a quarter-million fake comments is \u201cextraordinary\u201d and \u201cunprecedented\u201d. It nearly brought down federal servers and so bogged-down the internal network it\u2019s become next-to-impossible to process any submissions at all. It\u2019s a massive assault on the credibility of the public consultation process.<\/p>\n<p>Who did it? Was it Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids?<\/p>\n<p>Find out \u2013 Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com<\/p>\n<p>Produced by: Brent Stafford<\/p>\n<p>Released: July 7, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/278826122\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"NEW%20FROM%20REGULATOR%20WATCH%20-%20Flavor%20Spam%20%7C%20Fake%20Anti-Vaping%20Comments%20Flood%20FDA\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bitter battle to destroy vaping, bad actors have spammed over 255,000 fake \u2018anti-vaping\u2019 comments into the system overseeing the public consultation process for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17772,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}