{"id":746770,"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.com\/index\/746770","title":{"rendered":"Samsung admits fault, faces fine in false advertising investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/samsung-admits-fault-faces-fine-in-false-advertising-investigation-442687\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"609\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/samsung-sign-239.jpg?w=609&#038;h=406&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=609%2C406\" 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't discussed any specific allegations,\u00a0Samsung did admit fault to an extent due to employees' \"insufficient understanding\"\u00a0of its marketing principles, and it has issued the following statement to the media:<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/samsung-admits-fault-faces-fine-in-false-advertising-investigation-442687\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/41pDM1YAczA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38gG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}