Payment for Mentions in the Press
An investigation found that contributing writers for reputable publications, such as Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Huffington Post, have taken payments in exchange for including brands in their articles. "Many high-volume sites, including the Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, and Forbes, maintain networks of unpaid contributors who publish large amounts of material." And those unpaid contributors don't play by the same roles as journalists and aren't put