{"id":1015498,"date":"2026-06-18T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015498"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:53:26","slug":"ftc-may-fine-amazon-billions-in-penalties-over-claims-that-e-commerce-giant-mislead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/ftc-may-fine-amazon-billions-in-penalties-over-claims-that-e-commerce-giant-mislead\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC may fine Amazon billions in penalties, over claims that e-commerce giant mislead &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon may be facing a major challenge from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The US government agency is reportedly considering legal action that could result in significant financial penalties for the e-commerce company. A Bloomberg report cited people familiar with the matter, claiming that the FTC has drafted a potential complaint against Amazon over allegations that it misled advertisers about aspects of its ad business.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the investigation is being conducted by the FTC&#8217;s consumer protection unit and could be resolved either through a lawsuit or a settlement as early as this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon may be facing a major challenge from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The US government agency is reportedly considering legal action that could result in significant financial penalties for the e-commerce company. A Bloomberg report cited people familiar with the matter, claiming that the FTC has drafted a potential complaint against Amazon over allegations that it misled advertisers about aspects of its ad business. According to the report, the investigation is being conducted by the FTC&#8217;s consumer protection unit and could be resolved either through a lawsuit or a settlement as early as this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015499,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015498\/revisions\/1015499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}