FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over Advertising Practices
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- Regulators say the e-commerce giant forced millions of advertisers to pay more than they should have. The company denies the claims.
- Federal regulators and 22 states allege that the tech giant made billions by manipulating how much brands and sellers paid for ads on its platform.
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- Regulators claim Amazon artificially bumped floor prices during peak shopping periods, adding surcharges to merchants’ ad spending.
- Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the FTC and 22 states for allegedly secretly charging businesses more for advertising.
- The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon for allegedly using a "secret ad surcharge" to drive up prices for ads on its website and app. FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson claims in a blog post on the lawsuit that the higher advertising prices "were largely passed on to American…
- The company's "deception continues to this day," the lawsuit says.
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