Google has been plagued by “deceptive” radio ads about the Pixel 4

The Google search giant is back in legal trouble, but not for what it has done recently. The company has been sued in Texas for radio commercials that aired from late October to early December 2019 (October to December 2009). According to AndroidCentral, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit alleging that Google published false and misleading advertisements about its Pixel 4. Google apparently aired radio commercials for its Pixel 4 smartphones in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets. Along چیکاو Be.

The allegations suggest that Google has refused to offer Pixel 4 smartphones to advertisers, while asking them to testify positively and personally about the use of the product. In particular, the complaint alleges that “Google has sought to capture and distribute advertisements using deceptive scripting terms,” ​​even after iHeartMedia reported that such actions violated Texas Consumer Protection Act with deceptive Texas trade practices. Is, again the company’s advertising has continued.

The script of these advertisements includes phrases such as: “I I took studio photos of everything پسر playing boy soccerمشه A meteor shower… A rare spotted owl in the backyard I landed”.

Google allowed players to modify certain events listed in the script, but did not allow them to delete first-person pronouns. Google spokesman José Castañeda said Google would “investigate the complaint, but AG’s claims appear to be misrepresenting what happened here.”

The Attorney General also added that these advertisements were broadcast 2405 times on iHeartMedia radio channels between October 28, 2019 (November 26, 2019) to December 2, 2019 (December 4, 2019). During this time, Google has not provided the Pixel 4 device to any of the eight radio personalities who “personalized” the text of the Pixel 4 series handset commercials, while giving messages about their use of the Pixel 4 device. It was sent for these advertisements that according to these messages, it was perceived that these characters themselves have used and tested these phones closely and practically, and all the items that have the capabilities and features. The handsets of these phones say in their promotional plays that they have already been tested and approved by them.

In other words, these radio commercials were performed in the form of plays, and the characters who played roles in these plays asked Google to deliver a 4-pixel smartphone to each of them so that they could Examine the phone so that the advertisements they play in the form of plays on the radio are not deceptive, and they test what is real about the phones after testing the performance of this phone.

But Google has avoided delivering these phones to these characters in the play, although it was supposed to deliver a 4-pixel phone to each of these characters, but apparently only pre-written texts in the description of this phone Delivered to them and they also ran those ads from the text delivered by Google. Later, however, it turned out that the capabilities and features that they had advertised for the Pixel 4 in their plays for this phone were not entirely true, and now the prosecutor has accused Google of “cheating” about this phone. Claims that Google has published false and misleading advertisements about its Pixel 4, and that such actions are in violation of Texas Consumer Protection Act.

In January 2020, Google reverted to iHeartMedia to launch a similar ad campaign for its Pixel 4 smartphone. At the same time, Google refused to provide these smartphones to the characters of the play, until iHeartMedia was finally forced to buy these phones from Google at its own expense and make them available to the characters of the play.

The complaint added: “This consistent pattern of behavior reflects Google’s apparent disregard for genuine and accurate advertising in the marketing and sales of its products.” In the event that Google is found guilty of the alleged charges, the company will be required to “pay a civil penalty for any DTPA violation to Texas that is not expected to exceed $ 10,000,” in addition to the fine. The company must also pay all the costs of this court.