{"id":156657,"date":"2026-09-01T00:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/156657\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:12:15","slug":"federal-trade-commission-and-22-states-sue-amazon-over-inflated-advertising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/156657\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sue Amazon over inflated advertising prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MAE ANDERSON<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states filed a lawsuit against online retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/amazon-com-inc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> on Monday claiming that it defrauded advertising customers.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington, claims that Amazon overcharged 1.2 million advertising customers by misleading them on prices for online auctions for ads.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint says Amazon said it was offering competitive prices on several ad products when it was actually inflating auction prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen one of the world\u2019s largest online retailers engages in unfair and deceptive conduct, the impact can be staggering,\u201d said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson. \u201cAmazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly higher prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Amazon wrote in a blog post that the FTC \u201cleans on a handful of simplified communications to allege a companywide effort to deceive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is patently false,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MAE ANDERSON NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states filed a lawsuit against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[274,112,73539,190,73540],"class_list":["post-156657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-amazon","tag-berlin","tag-ftc","tag-germany","tag-inflated-advertising-prices"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117192894068365031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}