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title: "Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites"
author: "David McCabe"
published_at: "2026-04-15T18:08:35+00:00"
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categories: ["Advertising and Marketing","Conservatism (US Politics)","Suits and Litigation (Civil)","Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues","Regulation and Deregulation of Industry","Online Advertising","Breitbart News Network LLC","Dentsu","Publicis Groupe","WPP","Federal Trade Commission","Computers and the Internet","Ferguson, Andrew N"]
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# Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites

WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.