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US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Lyft.
The FTC accused the company of making "numerous false and misleading claims" The rates it published allegedly didn't represent drivers' average earnings and inflated actual earnings by up to 30 percent .
Lyft will have to explicitly tell drivers how much their potential take-home pay is based on typical, instead of inflated, earnings.
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