Aspects of public relations are currently regulated. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), through its Regulation FD, says when an company “discloses material nonpublic information to certain individuals or entities—generally, securities market professionals, such as stock analysts, or holders of the issuer’s securities who may well trade on the basis of the information—the issuer must make public disclosure of that information.” The goal is to promote full and fair disclosure.

Now Netflix faces SEC probe over Facebook post hat said, “customers were viewing more than 1 billion hours of video content a month. The same information had appeared on the company’s blog the month before. But in neither case did the company issue a formal press release or make a separate filing with the SEC disclosing the billion hour statistic.”
Read more here: CNN MONEY STORY
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