The attorney general's office said Operation Clean Turf had been "a year-long undercover investigation into the reputation management industry, the manipulation of consumer-review websites", and into what it called "the practice of astroturfing".
Sentimentality, as Solomon observes, involves in giving oneself over to such manipulation; the criticism of consumers as complicit in this process implies that the emotions felt are not the person's own, real and authentic, but a product of the skillful manipulation of Hollywood.
She said she had asked Mr. Gensler in recent days to revoke exemptions given to some oil futures traders through what are called no-action letters that she said could permit the manipulation of prices to consumers.
One of the most significant problems for individual consumers is the manipulation of their preferences by direct to consumer advertising.
Similarly, a marketing course should raise the issues of deceptive advertising, manipulation of social values, and consumer data protection.
Without stiff penalties for manipulation of the information disclosed, the consumers are up a creek without a paddle.
Clearly, the manipulation of search could be harmful to consumers.
It relied on display, advertising, newspapers and the other new technologies of consumer manipulation.
(Dargis) 'THE CENTURY OF THE SELF' (No rating, four hours, shown in two parts) "The Century of the Self," a four-part series produced for BBC television that is being shown in theaters in two separate two-hour segments, explores how Freud's seminal theory of the subconscious has been successfully deployed over the past century as an instrument of consumer manipulation and social control.
