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Beauty-review sites create buzz for products that earn them commissions via affiliate marketing with insistent headlines: “Do You Have a Butt Care Routine? You Should,” “Are You Being Kind to Your Butt?”

A marketing director reviewing the terms complained in an email to supervisors about “some pretty big flags,” including that the man they were paying to introduce the public to their company didn’t use social media.

The stem cell stuff is just a marketing thing.”

“The travel industry already has a strong financial motivation to promote tourism and is perfectly capable of marketing without a government subsidy,” said a spokeswoman for the Commerce Committee.

She says the most "egregious" marketing was aimed at young women.