{"id":1032349,"date":"2026-09-01T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032349"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:21:08","slug":"amazon-sued-by-us-ftc-22-states-over-alleged-20-billion-ad-auction-overcharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/01\/amazon-sued-by-us-ftc-22-states-over-alleged-20-billion-ad-auction-overcharges\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sued by US FTC, 22 states over alleged $20 billion ad auction overcharges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday for allegedly &#8220;manipulating&#8221; online auctions for digital advertising, resulting in more than $20 billion in overcharges for 1.2 million customers. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon &#8220;has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately 1.2 million advertising customers by manipulating the &#8216;auctions&#8217; that it uses to set the price of ads on its platform,&#8221; says the complaint, filed in a federal court in Washington state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday for allegedly &#8220;manipulating&#8221; online auctions for digital advertising, resulting in more than $20 billion in overcharges for 1.2 million customers. Amazon &#8220;has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately 1.2 million advertising customers by manipulating the &#8216;auctions&#8217; that it uses to set the price of ads on its platform,&#8221; says the complaint, filed in a federal court in Washington state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032349","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032352,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032349\/revisions\/1032352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}