On July 14, 2026, CVS Caremark settled with the FTC over the rebate machinery that sat between patients and the price of their medicine. The savings are projected in billions. The mechanism was built one prescription at a time.
The travel app promised cheap flights and told users to tip their booking assistant. The FTC says the tip was never really optional. It was the product.
Between 2016 and 2018, nearly half a million people bought Match.com subscriptions within 24 hours of getting a message from an account the company already suspected was fake. The $14 million settlement closes a case the FTC originally valued at $884 million.
A Miramar woman who promised to mint sixty millionaires by 2026 just settled with the FTC. No money changed hands. The people who joined her downline are still where she left them.
For years, the price on the pharmacy receipt was not the price of the drug. It was the price of a rebate game played above the patient's head. On February 4, 2026, one of the three companies running that game agreed to stop.
A 61-year-old woman was preparing to walk away from her income, her insurance, and her daily life for a man who existed almost entirely inside her phone. Her daughter watched it happen and knew the word for what she was watching, but could not make her mother hear it.