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Can you trust your smartphone news source?

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Do you know if the latest smartphone news you read online can be trusted? When you look for information about products to buy online, keep in mind that most sites are built to sell their own product or act as an agent for another business. Affiliate marketing is the name for this type of business. Affiliate marketing isn't a bad thing in and of itself. Affiliates make websites to promote a product or brand. In exchange, they get a small commission for promoting the product or brand. The affiliate, however, only works to promote the most expensive items and ignores the rest. So it can sometimes be a pretty shady thing to do. But it can also help the reader, but only if the author and website are willing to tell you about their ties to the company first. It's the law, and the FCC sets the rules. Let's think about websites that try to sell smartphones. If you want to know everything new about smartphones, you can find a huge amount of information online. Most informational w...