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France wants to regulate influencers and opens a public consultation

2023-01-08T15:42:49.635Z


The government wants to regulate the “cheating” which pushes influencers to fool their fans on the products they promote.


A code of good conduct for influencers, to prevent them from fooling their fans on the products they promote: this is the project of the French government, which announced on Sunday the opening until the end of January of a public consultation .

Controversies, sometimes followed by fines, regularly erupt over the practices of influencers who do not always reveal the relationships that bind them to certain brands.

Influencer Nabilla Benattia-Vergara, for example, paid a fine of 20,000 euros for promoting stock market services on Snapchat in 2018 without mentioning that she was paid for it.

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The Ministry of the Economy announced the principle of this public consultation on December 9, following a round table with representatives of this booming sector, which for its part pleads for self-regulation.

Millions of you consult their opinions, their recommendations in the field of fashion, sport, beauty, travel.

They therefore play a role in our daily lives.

It gives them a special responsibility

, ”said the French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, about the 150,000 influencers in France.

Consultation until January 31

The vast majority of them obviously respect the rules.

But there are also certain scams or sometimes simply certain oversights.

We forget to say that we were paid to recommend such a product, such a site or such a trip

, ”he added in a video published on the consultation site.

"

It is these discrepancies, these shortcomings, sometimes this cheating that we want to correct with the regulation of this sector

", he continued, referring to his desire to put in place a "code of good conduct".

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The consultation, accessible until January 31 on concertation-influenceurs.make.org, “

will allow all French people who wish to do so to express themselves on 11 measures divided into four themes

”, he specified: the rights and influencer obligations, intellectual property, consumer protection and industry governance.

Source: lefigaro

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