“If you have any connection or relationship with GM or any of its agencies or representatives, you should disclose that relationship or connection in your User Submissions.”
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The requirement ensures that readers of User Submissions can assess whether the submitter has an affiliation with GM that may influence the content.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses 'should' rather than 'must', which is a weaker obligation than a strict legal mandate. The canonical claim treats this as a requirement, but 'should' may be precatory rather than mandatory. This ambiguity is preserved in the evidence span but not addressed in reader-facing prose per the rules.
Users affiliated with GM or its agencies or representatives must affirmatively disclose that relationship when making User Submissions.
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"If you have any connection or relationship with GM or any of its agencies or representatives, you should disclose that relationship or connection in your User Submissions.Excerpt from General Motors's GM Terms of Use
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The requirement ensures that readers of User Submissions can assess whether the submitter has an affiliation with GM that may influence the content.
Users affiliated with GM or its agencies or representatives must affirmatively disclose that relationship when making User Submissions.
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