The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) (GOOG) (GOOG, GOOGL) Google to see if the companies’ misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, Josh Sisco and Leah Nylen of Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the matter. The probes are being conducted by the FTC’s consumer protection unit and focus on whether the companies properly disclosed the terms and pricing for ads, sources told Bloomberg.
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