Matt Levine
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3,472 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Matt Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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speculative.
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I was talking to our mutual friend Sylvia Kellingsworth, who most recently co hosted this podcast with me.
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know.
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It's our
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So I decided to tell a bit about this case.
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So okay, so the the Federal Trade Commission brought a um complaint and and like twenty two states' attorney generals.
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general.
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The Federal Trade Commission and twenty two state attorneys general.
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brought a complaint against Amazon claiming that it deceived advertisers and how it ran its auctions for like sponsored products on you know, like when you search for a product on Amazon, like first results are like, oh, sponsored results.
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And you know, advertisers pay for that and there's like an auction for, you know, who gets the ad space.
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And
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The FTC says that Amazon deceived the advertisers and how it ran the auction.
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And it's interesting, like I write about the financial industry and this stuff has a certain rhyme with the financial industry, right?
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Like you're running an exchange platform where people are electronically bidding on assets, right?
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Yeah.
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But at the same time, like
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I was saying to Sylvia like
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Arguably I don't really know how to quantify this, but like arguably
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The online advertising business is bigger than the financial industry.
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Like it's so big.
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