{"id":18044,"date":"2018-08-24T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=18044"},"modified":"2018-09-03T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:30:41","slug":"new-from-regulator-watch-flavor-spam-update-95-of-comments-submitted-to-fda-on-flavors-vaping-deemed-astroturf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/18044","title":{"rendered":"NEW FROM REGULATOR WATCH &#8211; Flavor Spam (Update) | 95% Of Comments Submitted to FDA On Flavors &#038; Vaping Deemed Astroturf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from Brent Stafford at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulatorwatch.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regulator Watch<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RegWatch reports today that the extraordinary and unprecedented flood of fake comments into the network hosting the public consultation process for FDA\u2019s proposed Regulation of Flavors in Tobacco Products is much higher than previously known.<\/p>\n<p>With the comment period now closed, staff at Regulations.gov have confirmed to RegWatch that 95% of the 525,000 comments received into the system are indeed BOT submitted comments or are otherwise duplicate in nature. It\u2019s a stunning revelation.<\/p>\n<p>What impact will the anti-flavor astroturfing campaign have on the regulation of flavors in vaping? Find out\u2014only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by: Brent Stafford<br \/>\nReleased: August 23, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/286444682\" 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%28Update%29%20%7C%2095%25%20Of%20Comments%20Submitted%20to%20FDA%20On%20Flavors%20%26%20Vaping%20Deemed%20Astroturf\";<\/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>Here&#8217;s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch: RegWatch reports today that the extraordinary and unprecedented flood of fake comments into the network hosting&#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-18044","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\/18044","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=18044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18045,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions\/18045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}