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Google reached a settlement with Texas Attorney General Paxton on Friday for allegedly falsely advertising its Google Pixel 4 smartphone. The advertisements aired on iHeartMedia using radio DJs to promote the devices by broadcasting detailed testimonials, although Google reportedly never provided a phone for them to test. Paxton filed the lawsuit against the company in January of last year.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIPaxton announced Texas has reached an $8 million settlement with…

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FP StaffNov 30, 2022 12:46:34 ISTThe FTC or Federal trade commission and a number of states in the United States announced that Google and iHeartMedia had settled a case where they were accused of airing misleading and fraudulent ads of the Pixel 4 over the radio.  The settlement bars Google from making misrepresentations in endorsements of its products for 20 years. Google will also need to regularly report to California about its compliance with the settlement. Image Credit: Google The settlements stem from complaints…

The US Federal Trade Commission and seven US states reached a settlement with Alphabet Inc's Google and iHeartMedia Inc over allegations of deceptive ads promoting Google's Pixel 4 smartphone, the FTC said. the FTC said in a statement on Monday that the companies aired nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google's Pixel 4 phone in 2019 and 2020. The allegations were settled by the companies, who agreed to pay $9.4 million in penalties, the FTC said.Read…

WASHINGTON—Google and iHeartMedia Inc. IHRT -3.62% agreed Monday to pay $9.4 million to settle allegations by state and federal authorities that the companies used deceptive endorsements by radio personalities to promote Google’s Pixel 4 phones. The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and seven state attorneys general also bars radio broadcaster iHeartMedia and Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc.,…