{"id":652676,"date":"2013-04-16T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=442687"},"modified":"2013-04-16T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:20:30","slug":"samsung-admits-fault-faces-fine-in-false-advertising-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652676","title":{"rendered":"Samsung admits fault, faces fine in false advertising investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/samsung-admits-fault-faces-fine-in-false-advertising-investigation-442687\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/samsung-sign-239.jpg?w=609&amp;h=406&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung faces fine in false advertising investigation\" title=\"Samsung\" \/><\/a><\/center>Samsung has been known to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/11\/23\/samsung-ad-depicts-iphone-owners-as-mindless-hipster-sheep-video\/\">go on the offensive with its marketing and advertising<\/a>, but a new accusation alleges that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> might have gone too far with a recent campaign. According to a complaint filed in Taiwan, Samsung has been accused of hiring students to publish articles on the web that attacked <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc\">HTC<\/a> and recommended Samsung cell phones. The allegations are now being investigated by the Fair Trade Commission and could face an $835,000 fine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jl9zJrud8JmQ0w7la3wHB7-xMxSA?docId=CNG.b522392320b0ec3e136fb07e3db1f58c.5b1\"><em>AFP<\/em> reported<\/a>. While the company hasn&#8217;t discussed any specific allegations,\u00a0Samsung did admit fault to an extent due to employees&#8217; &#8220;insufficient understanding&#8221;\u00a0of its marketing principles, and it has issued the following statement to the media:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/samsung-admits-fault-faces-fine-in-false-advertising-investigation-442687\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/41pDM1YAczA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has been known to go on the offensive with its marketing and advertising, but a new accusation alleges that Samsung might have gone too far with a recent campaign. According to a complaint filed in Taiwan, Samsung has been accused of hiring students to publish articles on the web that attacked HTC and recommended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}