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Amazon made statements to mislead advertisers about the true cause of price increases, the FTC said in unredacted details from an August lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Violetta Mailyan, 45, was convicted in May of nine counts of wire fraud and three counts of obstruction of an investigation of a healthcare offense, as she attempted to mislead federal agents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

This case was "about whether corporations can mislead consumers about what happens to their personal information without facing meaningful consequences. New Mexico stood its ground," Torrez said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Communications between senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, were "designed to mislead the public," Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

It was a World War Two film: the Allies devise a scheme to mislead Germany about the site of the upcoming landings in Europe.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

One major reason is fraud, where one party intentionally misleads the other before the agreement is signed, causing the other party to enter the contract based on false information.

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026

The Council of Science Editors’ recommendations on publication ethics say ghost authorship is “ethically unacceptable” because it misleads readers about potential conflicts of interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Elon Musk, who founded xAI, opposes OpenAI’s restructuring plan because he believes it veers away from the company’s founding principles and misleads investors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

The ASA is cracking down on online ads like these, saying their structure misleads customers.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024

Trust reposed in a friend avails or misleads according to his love and his resources; trust in a traitor is ruinous, and ruinous in proportion to its energy.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick

According to court documents, Isbilen claimed she was misled by Turk into paying £750,000 to Mountbatten-Windsor, believing it was for help with a passport.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

In the Meta case, Roy and her team had argued that the social media giant had intentionally designed its products to hook young children and repeatedly misled the public about known risks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Wednesday, ahead of its earnings report, a judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the social-media company misled users about its data-privacy practices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Musk has only just settled the lawsuits from all the angry people who say they were misled.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Muhammad and Mom are easily lured, misled, and taken for a ride.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

But every argument about the amount reminded the public that the UK did spend millions, even if the figure was officially judged as misleading.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Elevance Health sued autism-therapy provider the Perfect Child, alleging that it paid the company $160 million due to misleading claims over the last five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Amazon, eBay, Temu and OnBuy said misleading listings were prohibited and that it had removed the jewellery identified by Watchdog.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

It also broadly forbids these companies from misleading or deceiving customers and prohibits confidentiality agreements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas