{"id":177721,"date":"2026-01-13T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/just-answer-pearl-askalawyer-accused-sued-by-ftc-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:20:19","slug":"just-answer-pearl-askalawyer-accused-sued-by-ftc-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/just-answer-pearl-askalawyer-accused-sued-by-ftc-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Answer, Pearl, AskALawyer Accused sued by FTC : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/13\/nx-s1-5676150\/ftc-lawsuit-just-answers-consumer-deception\">Just Answer, Pearl, AskALawyer Accused sued by FTC : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/13\/nx-s1-5676150\/ftc-lawsuit-just-answers-consumer-deception\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/13\/nx-s1-5676150\/ftc-lawsuit-just-answers-consumer-deception<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-13 16:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against JustAnswer, alleging consumer deception through its AI-based search engine Pearl.<\/li>\n<li>JustAnswer&#8217;s Pearl chatbot allegedly tricks users into signing up for its Q&amp;A service with a $1 or $5 join fee, followed by charging significantly higher monthly subscription fees without clear disclosure.<\/li>\n<li>Consumers are allegedly unaware of the monthly subscription fees, which can reach as high as $79 per month, until they see the fine print when attempting to sign up.<\/li>\n<li>The FTC investigation reveals that this technique has duped hundreds of thousands of consumers, leading to numerous complaints against JustAnswer.<\/li>\n<li>JustAnswer CEO Andy Kurtzig allegedly refused to make changes to the scheme despite being aware of the consumer deception.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit seeks to halt JustAnswer&#8217;s practices, which the FTC claims violate federal consumer protection laws, and is part of a broader fight against &#8220;dark patterns&#8221; used by companies to trick consumers into unwanted subscriptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Answer, Pearl, AskALawyer Accused sued by FTC : NPR https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/13\/nx-s1-5676150\/ftc-lawsuit-just-answers-consumer-deception Publish Date: 2026-01-13 16:34:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/764x430+71+0\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/png\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F64%2F4f%2Fdbf310ce491582be12351ce0d3b2%2Fjustanswerpic.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177723,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177721\/revisions\/177723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}