Senator Murphy

Dr. Means, are you familiar with

FTC policy that requires those who are recommending products online to disclose their financial connection to those companies.

In particular, the document from the FTC says this, if you endorse a product through social media, your endorsement message should make it obvious when you have a relationship with the brand.

Are you familiar with that?

Certainly.

So, as you know, there is a pending complaint regarding your failure to adhere to those guidelines that basically makes the contention, and this committee has verified the data that underlies their complaint, that you routinely violated this policy and that, in fact, in the majority

many of the products you recommend, you did not transparently reveal your financial connection.

Let me give you an example.

That's false.

Well, I'll give you an example.

So there's a prenatal vitamin called WeNatal.

Your filings before this committee show that you started receiving compensation in the spring of 2024.

And yet in September of 2024, you posted a video saying that you had no financial relationship to the company, just a big fan.

And then in October, you said, not sponsored, just love these.

But in fact, you have documentation before this committee that showed when you said those things, you had a financial relationship.

You had already started receiving money from that company.

You weren't telling the truth when you said you were just a fan.

You were actually receiving money, correct?

But you had received partnership fees for this particular prenatal vitamin.

In fact, prior to September and October, you had posted partnership links in which you get compensated based upon click-throughs, correct?