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FTC says operators of jerk.com deceived consumers

By Washington Examiner
Published April 7, 2014 9:27pm ET
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission says the operators of a website called Jerk.com are the ones behaving badly.

The commission said Monday the website harvested personal information from Facebook to create profiles labeling people a “Jerk” or “not a Jerk”.

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