Last Sunday evening, it was revealed that PopSugar had repurposed millions of lifestyle influencers' images, social media handles and biographies to create dedicated pages for them on their site. ShopStyle, the service used to create PopSugar's affiliate links, later circulated a statement from director of business development Hillary Sloan on April 18. Although PopSugar used to own ShopStyle, it was sold to Ebates last April and as such PopSugar had "no ownership in or control over ShopStyle". The blogger also revealed that at the time of our interview PopSugar had yet to contact her or others who had their images used on the site. "Unfortunately, this is not the first time bloggers and influencers photos are used without our permission.

Source: Forbes April 23, 2018 18:22 UTC