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Amazon rigged billions in ad pricing, lawsuit from states and US watchdog alleges

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a bipartisan group of 22 states has filed a lawsuit alleging Amazon secretly overcharged more than a million advertising customers by manipulating online auctions it uses to set ad prices.
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August 31, 2026
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Amazon rigged billions in ad pricing, lawsuit from states and US watchdog alleges
WHAT HAPPENED
Amazon overrides and replaces the actual auction results with higher prices set by Amazon to increase its profits, s home state of Washington. In a statement to the BBC, Amazon with the premise that it misled advertisers and called the suit the complaint states, prompting swift pushback from Amazon. it was unhappy about how much revenue its advertising auctions were generating
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