Google has agreed to an $8 million settlement with Texas over misleading adverts for its Pixel 4 smartphone, wherein radio DJs had been employed to offer testimonials with out being given the cellphone to make use of. Texas Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton made the announcement final week. Ars Technica studies: At challenge was Google’s trustworthiness as an advertiser after the tech big “employed radio DJs to document and broadcast detailed testimonials about their private experiences with the Pixel 4,” however then “refused to offer the DJs with a cellphone for them to make use of,” Paxton mentioned. The tech big had beforehand settled claims from the Federal Commerce Fee and 6 different states for about $9 million, and Paxton appeared proud that his “settlement recovers $8 million for the State of Texas alone.”
Paxton mentioned that “if Google goes to promote in Texas, their statements higher be true.” He determined to take motion to carry Google “accountable for mendacity to Texans for monetary acquire,” saying that enormous corporations shouldn’t anticipate “particular remedy beneath the regulation.” “Texas will do no matter it takes to guard our residents and our state economic system from companies’ false and deceptive commercials,” Paxton mentioned.
