Phia, the shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is refunding brands after admitting it earned commissions on sales it never drove. An investigation found the extension opening a hidden tab at checkout and swapping in its own affiliate code. Impact.com has suspended Phia from its marketplace. The company calls it a bug; Edelman says the feature shipped in December 2025.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Phia, the shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is refunding brands after admitting it earned commissions on sales it never drove. An investigation found the extension opening a hidden tab at checkout and swapping in its own affiliate code. Impact.com has suspended Phia from its marketplace. The company calls… Read More »Bill Gates\u2019 daughter\u2019s shopping app Phia is in damage control mode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":125304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}