Three major ad companies settled with the Federal Trade Commission over claims that they colluded on policies to combat misinformation that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers, a concession to the Trump administration’s claims of unfair treatment of conservatives online and in the media. The agency said in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas that WPP, Dentsu and Publicis had policies that limited the number of ads that ran on sites with content the industry defined as misinformation.
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